The Giger surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 984 people carried this name — #25,187 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 303,000 people counted. That is down 11% from 1,107 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
4,302 people named Giger live in Switzerland.
They live in all 26 of Switzerland’s cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.
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/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 68 people named Giger.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Paris.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
33 people named Giger is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
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).
Who carried it
People named Giger,
with a public archive behind them.
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Oscar Joseph Giger 1880– · association football player -
Conrad Giger 1559–1635 · joiner
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Mathis Giger 1568–1641 · cabinetmaker
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Mathis Giger 1568–1640 · cabinetmaker
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Franz Giger 1856–1937 · politician
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Emil Giger 1885–1962 · teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Giger.
- Gielen 113 · U.S. census
- Gier 1,344 · U.S. census
- Gies 1,719 · U.S. census
- Giess 148 · U.S. census
- Gigandet 176 · U.S. census
- Gigante 1,116 · U.S. census
- Gigli 179 · U.S. census
- Giglio 4,586 · U.S. census
- Gigliotti 3,341 · U.S. census
- Gignac 841 · U.S. census
- Gigon 117 · U.S. census
- Gigot 136 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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