The Dosch surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,567 people carried this name — #17,851 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 188,700 people counted. That is up 6% from 1,475 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
260 people named Dosch live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Graubünden.
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 73 people named Dosch.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Moselle.
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 Dosch,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ludwig Dosch 1827–1908 · teacher
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Peter Dosch 1915–2005 · physician
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Reinhold Dosch 1926–2019 · engineer
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Hilmar Dosch 1929–2016 · executive
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Serge Dosch 1951– · politician
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Helmut Dosch 1955– · physicist
Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dosch.
When the index is not enough
This page says where Dosch is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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