The North surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 20,238 people carried this name — #1,623 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 13,300 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 348 people named North.
13 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 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
42 people named North live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to North.
- Nordmann 453 · U.S. census
- Nore 311 · U.S. census
- Noris 481 · U.S. census
- Norman 65,269 · U.S. census
- Normand 3,068 · U.S. census
- Normandin 1,951 · U.S. census
- Norval 174 · U.S. census
- Nosal 1,122 · U.S. census
- Noss 1,299 · U.S. census
- Not 244 · U.S. census
- Nota 260 · U.S. census
- Notar 206 · U.S. census
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