The Feher surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,564 people carried this name — #17,883 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 188,700 people counted. That is up 2% from 1,533 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
144 people named Feher live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 56 people named Feher.
Most of them — 32 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Bas-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.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 34 people named Feher live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
82 people named Feher is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Feher,
with a public archive behind them.
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Friedrich Feher 1889–1950 · screenwriter -
Itzig Feher 1857–1942
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Zallel Feher 1862–1942
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Beile Feher 1870–1943
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Desider Feher 1874–1943 · lawyer
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Naftali Ignatz Feher 1876–1942
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Feher.
- Federspiel 773 · U.S. census
- Fedon 156 · U.S. census
- Fedrizzi 221 · U.S. census
- Fee 6,453 · U.S. census
- Feffer 296 · U.S. census
- Feger 690 · U.S. census
- Fehr 4,272 · U.S. census
- Fehrenbach 1,016 · U.S. census
- Feidt 180 · U.S. census
- Feig 857 · U.S. census
- Feige 452 · U.S. census
- Feil 1,070 · U.S. census
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