The Ganter surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 907 people carried this name — #26,814 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 322,600 people counted. That is down 14% from 1,054 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 248 people named Ganter.
17 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 23 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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
124 people named Ganter 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.
Who carried it
People named Ganter,
with a public archive behind them.
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Georg Ganter 1885–1940 · physician -
Dionys Ganter 1798–1862 · painter
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Heinrich Ganter 1848–1915 · mathematician
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Bernard J. Ganter 1928–1993 · Catholic priest
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Allan Ganter 1938– · figure skater
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ganter.
- Ganier 223 · U.S. census
- Ganiere 138 · U.S. census
- Ganon 191 · U.S. census
- Gans 2,429 · U.S. census
- Ganser 1,043 · U.S. census
- Ganster 398 · U.S. census
- Gantes 157 · U.S. census
- Ganthier 306 · U.S. census
- Gantner 739 · U.S. census
- Gantz 3,177 · U.S. census
- Gantzer 340 · U.S. census
- Ganz 2,739 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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