The Bosshard surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 237 people carried this name — #80,131 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,250,000 people counted. That is up 8% from 219 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
3,695 people named Bosshard live in Switzerland.
They live in 24 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 64 people named Bosshard.
15 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Haut-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.
Who carried it
People named Bosshard,
with a public archive behind them.
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Heinrich Bosshard 1748–1815 · surveyor -
Emil Bosshard 1860–1937 · chemist
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Alfred Bosshard 1884–1953 · association football player -
Heinrich Bosshard 1811–1877 · naturalist
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Heinrich Bosshard 1826–1897 · politician
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Johann Jakob Meier Bosshard 1838–1928 · Post office manager
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bosshard.
- Bossa 195 · U.S. census
- Bossard 825 · U.S. census
- Bossart 539 · U.S. census
- Bosse 4,036 · U.S. census
- Bosser 122 · U.S. census
- Bossert 1,913 · U.S. census
- Bossi 534 · U.S. census
- Bossier 546 · U.S. census
- Bossler 591 · U.S. census
- Bosso 397 · U.S. census
- Bosson 223 · U.S. census
- Bost 5,734 · U.S. census
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