Frequency: (108)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: probably a variant of Flaitz, Flaiss, Swabian variants of Floss, a topographic name for someone near running water or a channel, or a metonymic occupational name for a raftsman, from Middle High German vlōz ‘current’, ‘stream’. Compare Floss.
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