Foos is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Foos
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Germany
Meaning: Name worn in the East (54, 90, 68). Uncertain meaning. Could match the German Fuß (= foot), but this is only a hypothesis. An act established Guénange (57) in 1660 actually a variant of Faustus (= Faust, qv).

How popular is Foos?

Foos is common in Germany.

Foos is ranked 80322 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Foos bearers increased by 0.8215427 per cent in 2010 US census to 2209 since 2000, the surname slipped by 825 spots and ranked at 13703. The last name was found in around 8 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.29 96.21
Hispanic or Latino 2.26 1.64
Others 1.31 0.91
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.45 0.59
Black 0.36 0.37
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.32 0.27
Foos is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Germany is ahead in terms of density. Around 5461 people have been found who wears Foos as their family name. Foos is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
100,092 Spain9
98,953 Belarus7
214,847 Australia4
6,353 Panama2
54,641 Sweden2
201,317 England2
30,360 Thailand1
53,505 Turkey1
11,831 Tajikistan1
81,201 Switzerland1
49,101 Denmark1
118,015 Netherlands1
28,365 Kenya1
153,416 Italy1
880 Djibouti1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
16,483 Chile45
105,948 Ukraine38
133,639 Canada18
Countries with hundreds of Foos:
40,593 Russia365
16,501 Argentina328
50,564 France196
23,004 Kazakhstan110
Countries with thousands of Foos:
13,366 United States2,577
5,247 Germany1,748
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Comments

L
Leonore Oller
The first holders of this surname were probably from one of the two Belgian cities that are named fooz, one near Cork, the other near Namur the name of an ancient family name became rural property inherited from the twelfth century in the French part of our current Belgium also noted the existence of the community of Foolz near bar-sur-seine champagne in these place names evoked probably once a fork, a fork in road , former French forced: fork.

Foos Namesakes

  • Anya Foos-Graber, Author
  • Dominic Foos, Golfer
  • Dominic Foos, Golfer
  • Chip Foose, Designer
  • Chip Foose, Designer
  • Lynne Foose, Chip Foose's wife
  • Susannah Foos, from 2021 horror movie Lovers Creek, who portrayed Gina Williams.

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