Last Name KRESS

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Meaning	Name KRESS is a Latin spelling of its Cyrillic origin 'КРЕСС'. Below are some other possible Latin spellings of the Cyrillic version of this name. 'KRESS' 'CRESS' 'CKRESS' .

Origin	Jewish, Polish, Belgian, Hungarian, Belarusian

Rank	4,489 (2000 US census)	6,221 (1990 US census)

Count	7,269 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

96.95%, or 7047 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.45%, or 33 total occurrences, as black,
0.37%, or 27 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.15%, or 11 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.95%, or 69 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.13%, or 82 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.