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

The Gassner surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 987 people carried this name — #25,136 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 303,000 people counted. That is up 1% from 981 in 2000.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

432 people named Gassner live in Switzerland.

They live in 21 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

St. Gallen 123
Zurich 87
Bern 60
Aargau 23
Thurgau 13
Lucerne 12
Zug 12
Geneva 12

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 83 people named Gassner.

9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 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

Born outside France 9
Bas-Rhin 42
Moselle 10
Haut-Rhin 8
Paris 4
Meurthe-et-Moselle 3
Yvelines 3
Ardennes 2
Cher 1

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

In Argentina’s national register

At least 73 people named Gassner live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

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

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 40
Tierra del Fuego 12
Santa Cruz 11
Córdoba 10

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In the Nordic population registers

26 people named Gassner is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 26

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).

When the index is not enough

This page says where Gassner is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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