The Gerster surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 307 people carried this name — #61,207 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
643 people named Gerster live in Switzerland.
They live in 20 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 68 people named Gerster.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Haut-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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gerster.
- Geron 460 · U.S. census
- Gerot 140 · U.S. census
- Geroux 446 · U.S. census
- Gers 201 · U.S. census
- Gerson 2,323 · U.S. census
- Gerst 1,877 · U.S. census
- Gerstner 1,952 · U.S. census
- Gerthoffer 105 · U.S. census
- Gertz 1,913 · U.S. census
- Gervais 4,935 · U.S. census
- Gervasi 1,259 · U.S. census
- Gervasoni 163 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Gerster is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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