The Grasser surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,577 people carried this name — #17,764 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 188,700 people counted. That is up 30% from 1,217 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 721 people named Grasser.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 33 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
64 people named Grasser 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 Grasser,
with a public archive behind them.
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Erasmus Grasser 1450–1518 · architect
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Johann Jacob Grasser 1579–1627 · count palatine
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Johann Jacob Grasser 1610–1671 · parson
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Giuseppe Grasser 1782–1839 · Catholic priest
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Georg Grasser 1883– · university teacher
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Anton Grasser 1891–1976 · military personnel
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Grasser.
- Granville 2,608 · U.S. census
- Grappe 170 · U.S. census
- Grappin 132 · U.S. census
- Gras 650 · U.S. census
- Grass 4,567 · U.S. census
- Grasse 548 · U.S. census
- Grassi 2,629 · U.S. census
- Grasso 7,894 · U.S. census
- Grat 122 · U.S. census
- Grathwohl 364 · U.S. census
- Gratias 116 · U.S. census
- Gratiot 101 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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