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

The Fosse surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 785 people carried this name — #28,584 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 344,800 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 2,554 people named Fosse.

16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 83 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 16
Seine-Maritime 398
Nord 262
Paris 177
Somme 152
Pas-de-Calais 116
Aisne 115
Manche 107
Sarthe 101

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 110 people named Fosse 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 Hainaut.

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

Where they live today

Hainaut 34
Flemish Brabant 33
Limburg 17
West Flanders 16
Antwerp 5
Luxembourg Province 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

33 people named Fosse live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

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

Where they live today

Vaud 20
Basel-Stadt 5
Geneva 5
Fribourg 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

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