Reuss
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Since 1776 name originating from the Judengasse in Frank- fort on Main only in the area of Emmendingen in the Upper Rhine, Baden 1809
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Reuss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 254K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 59K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 111K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Since 1776 name originating from the Judengasse in Frank- fort on Main only in the area of Emmendingen in the Upper Rhine, Baden 1809.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reuss 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Reuss | 4 |
| US United States | 1,309 | 1 in 254K | 1.4K | Reuss | 204 |
| EG Egypt | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 352K | — | Reuss | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 61 | Reuss | 43 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 427K | — | Reuss | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Reuss | 35 |
| DK Denmark | 99 | 1 in 59K | 99 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 76 | 1 in 111K | 76 | Reuss | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Reuss | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Henry XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorfb. 1724DECount of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1724-1779)
- Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorfb. 1757DEGerman princess (1757–1831)
- Heinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritzb. 1786DEmember of the House of Reuss Prince (1786-1841)
- Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritzb. 1822DEGerman princess (1822–1862)
- Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritzb. 1825DEGerman diplomat (1825-1906)
- Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greizb. 1846DEGerman prince (1846-1902)
- Theodor Reussb. 1855DEGerman singer
- Queen Eleonore of Bulgariab. 1860PLnot in their usual namePrincess Consort (1908-1908), later Queen Consort of Bulgaria (1908-1917)
- Princess Caroline Reuss of Greizb. 1884DEGerman Princess (1884-1905)
- Heinrich XIII Prinz Reussb. 1951DEGerman aristocrat, businessman and suspected terrorist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,859 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,309 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 99 | #5,498 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 76 | #13,619 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 61 | #44,978 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 does the name Reuss mean, and where does it come from?
- Since 1776 name originating from the Judengasse in Frank- fort on Main only in the area of Emmendingen in the Upper Rhine, Baden 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Reuss?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹus/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Reuss have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Reuss in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reuss.
- Where is Reuss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reuss is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Reuss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,309 people named Reuss in 2010, about 1 in 254 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/reussThe 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, “Reuss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.