The Dreyfus surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 789 people carried this name — #29,793 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 370,400 people counted. That is down 4% from 825 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Dreyfus surname
A surname from German.
Borrowed from German Dreifuß, an older name for Trèves, from Latin Augusta Trēverōrum.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Dreyfus» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 794 people named Dreyfus.
54 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 59 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
100 people named Dreyfus live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 39 people named Dreyfus live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Dreyfus,
with a public archive behind them.
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Markus Getsch Dreifuss 1812–1877 · opinion journalist -
Auguste Dreyfus 1827–1897 · banker -
Auguste Dreyfus 1827–1897 · banker -
Léopold Louis-Dreyfus 1833–1915 · businessperson -
Arthur Dreyfus d. 1999 · rower
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Henry Dreyfus d. 1944
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dreyfus.
- Dreher 5,644 · U.S. census
- Dreistadt 174 · U.S. census
- Dresch 523 · U.S. census
- Drexler 3,235 · U.S. census
- Drey 718 · U.S. census
- Dreyer 6,751 · U.S. census
- Dreyfuss 605 · U.S. census
- Dries 1,158 · U.S. census
- Driesbach 227 · U.S. census
- Droesch 202 · U.S. census
- Drogo 147 · U.S. census
- Drolet 1,041 · U.S. census
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