The Gascon surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,788 people carried this name — #15,135 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 151,500 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 532 people named Gascon.
100 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 58 départements, most often Ardèche.
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
26 people named Gascon live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Gascon in American newspapers,
1882–1907.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 8,762 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Gascon,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jean Gascon 1920–1988 · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gascon.
- Gary 21,213 · U.S. census
- Garzon 3,002 · U.S. census
- Gas 139 · U.S. census
- Gasch 348 · U.S. census
- Gasche 201 · U.S. census
- Gasco 273 · U.S. census
- Gashi 607 · U.S. census
- Gasior 1,024 · U.S. census
- Gasiorowski 535 · U.S. census
- Gasner 422 · U.S. census
- Gaspar 7,601 · U.S. census
- Gaspard 4,666 · U.S. census
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