The Bitter surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,137 people carried this name — #13,119 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 126,600 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
184 people named Bitter live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 56 people named Bitter.
20 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Paris.
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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bitter.
- Bissinger 481 · U.S. census
- Bisson 3,493 · U.S. census
- Bister 117 · U.S. census
- Biston 102 · U.S. census
- Biton 179 · U.S. census
- Bittel 652 · U.S. census
- Bittermann 124 · U.S. census
- Bittmann 160 · U.S. census
- Bittner 9,185 · U.S. census
- Bitton 969 · U.S. census
- Bitz 1,256 · U.S. census
- Biven 471 · U.S. census
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