The Assal surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 145 people carried this name — #119,508 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,000,000 people counted. That is up 26% from 115 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 116 people named Assal.
Most of them — 72 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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
43 people named Assal live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
27 people named Assal is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Assal,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ayoub Assal 2002– · association football player -
Gustave Assal 1867–1922
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Michèle Assal 1955– · painter
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Munzoul A. M. Assal 1967– · anthropologist
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Yasmine Assal 1985– · swimmer
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Anjali Assal 2000– · dancer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Assal.
- Asmus 1,994 · U.S. census
- Assa 169 · U.S. census
- Assad 1,400 · U.S. census
- Assadi 367 · U.S. census
- Assadourian 146 · U.S. census
- Assaf 1,191 · U.S. census
- Assante 425 · U.S. census
- Asselin 1,711 · U.S. census
- Assi 570 · U.S. census
- Ast 1,113 · U.S. census
- Aste 211 · U.S. census
- Astolfi 224 · U.S. census
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