Proß
surname · Latin script
Proß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 199K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 68Kas Pross
- ARArgentina1 in 118Kas Pross
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Proß itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
627 named Pross, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pross in DE Germany, US United States, NL Netherlands and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Proß counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 627as Pross | 1 in 531K | 671 | Pross | 37 |
| DE Germany | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Pross | 76 |
| AR Argentina | 387as Pross | 1 in 118K | 387 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 116as Pross | 1 in 149K | 116 | Pross | 6 |
| PL Poland | 61as Pross | 1 in 628K | 32 | Pross | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 38as Pross | 1 in 282K | 38 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 11as Pross | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | — |
627 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karel Prossb. 1864CZCzech physician (1864-??)
- Harry Prossb. 1923DEGerman journalist (1923–2010)
- Addy Prossb. 1945ILIsraeli chemist
- Max Prossb. 1957USAmerican screenwriter and television producer
- Josef Prossb. 2002ATAustrian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Proß?
- In the etymology graph, Pross is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Proß have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 627 people named Pross, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Proß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 627 people named Pross in 2010, about 1 in 531 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pro%C3%9FThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Proß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.