The Niess surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 399 people carried this name — #52,037 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted. That is up 1% from 394 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 357 people named Niess.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
31 people named Niess live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Nidwalden.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Niess.
- Niel 353 · U.S. census
- Nielsen 42,773 · U.S. census
- Niemiec 2,293 · U.S. census
- Nier 437 · U.S. census
- Nierengarten 178 · U.S. census
- Nies 2,321 · U.S. census
- Nieto 25,701 · U.S. census
- Niewiadomski 364 · U.S. census
- Nigon 163 · U.S. census
- Nigra 141 · U.S. census
- Nigro 4,773 · U.S. census
- Nikolic 1,042 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Niess is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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