Ehret surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Ehret surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,061 people carried this name — #14,485 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 142,900 people counted. That is up 1% from 2,041 in 2000.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,070 people named Ehret.

26 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 42 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 26
Haut-Rhin 567
Bas-Rhin 148
Paris 52
Territoire de Belfort 43
Moselle 27
Vosges 24
Marne 23
Haute-Saône 19

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

134 people named Ehret live in Switzerland.

They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Stadt.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Basel-Stadt 19
Bern 18
Fribourg 18
Zurich 13
Basel-Landschaft 13
Vaud 11
Geneva 7
St. Gallen 6

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 print

Ehret in American newspapers,
1898–1901.

Newspaper page from The Intermountain Catholic carrying the name Ehret
The Intermountain Catholic 1900-05-12
Newspaper page from The Salt Lake Herald carrying the name Ehret
The Salt Lake Herald 1898-06-17
Newspaper page from Santa Fe New Mexican carrying the name Ehret
Santa Fe New Mexican 1901-08-08

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 23,422 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Ehret,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Georg Dionysius Ehret
    Georg Dionysius Ehret 1708–1770 · illustrator
  • Rose Eleanor Ehret d. 2014 · mathematician
  • Sibylla Ehret d. 1853
  • George Philip Ehret 1741–1786 · scientific illustrator
  • Elizabeth Ehret Wolf 1750–1777
  • George Ehret 1835–1927

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

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