The Mesmer surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 690 people carried this name — #31,658 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 384,600 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
186 people named Mesmer live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.
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 84 people named Mesmer.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Moselle.
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 Mesmer.
- Merville 108 · U.S. census
- Mery 361 · U.S. census
- Merz 4,274 · U.S. census
- Mesa 11,341 · U.S. census
- Mesbah 105 · U.S. census
- Meschi 147 · U.S. census
- Mesnard 302 · U.S. census
- Mesquita 827 · U.S. census
- Messana 527 · U.S. census
- Messer 19,819 · U.S. census
- Messerli 390 · U.S. census
- Messier 4,195 · U.S. census
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