Schuss

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Schuss is a surname, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: shot.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4.7K◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 186K
  • USUnited States1 in 619K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.4K ●

across 5 countries

Sources
162 ●

9.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.7K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

SuzeLatin · Portuguese●17K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Suze in BR Brazil, US United States, NL Netherlands and 15 more, Schuß in DE Germany and Süze in TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

shot

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Schuss is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands3,712△280 rec.1 in 4.7K3.7KSuze35
BR Brazil1,1371.2K rec.1 in 186K1.1KSuze60
US United States5376K rec.1 in 619K537Suze162
DE Germany470433 rec.—listedSchuß38
GB United Kingdom424418 rec.——Suze56
AU Australia363342 rec.——Suze47
CA Canada179173 rec.——Suze29
TR Türkiye115127 rec.——Süze9
IT Italy6265 rec.——Suze2
AT Austria5633 rec.——Schuss17
JM Jamaica3946 rec.——Suze1
NZ New Zealand2420 rec.——Suze22

Roughly 3.7K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 4.7K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.4K66%
  • German36317%
  • French864%
  • Spanish543%
  • Portuguese472%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,39766%
German36317%
French864%
Spanish543%
Portuguese472%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Schuss is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname26 records spelled Schuss2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Schüss

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Schuss is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A straight run downhill.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In cim, gentian

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

1800185019001950Hendrik Adolph Schuss, b. 1802Zeev Schuss, b. 1937Paul Schuss, b. 1948

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●

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Schuss
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010151#115,639
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020150#121,361
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000146#111,740
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—5#121,568
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#391,071
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#163,225
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Schuss?
We estimate roughly 5.4 thousand people bear Schuss (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Schuss have the most bearers?
We estimate about 3.7 thousand people bear Schuss in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled suze.
Where is Schuss most common?
Schuss is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Schuss mean?
Recorded meaning: shot
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Schuss”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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