The Osswald surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 386 people carried this name — #53,538 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. That is up 15% from 337 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 350 people named Osswald.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 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
107 people named Osswald live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Stadt.
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.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 37 people named Osswald live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
26 people named Osswald 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 Osswald,
with a public archive behind them.
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Fritz Osswald 1878–1966 · painter -
Franz Max Osswald 1879–1944 · Privatdozent -
Johann Osswald 1712–1752
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Moritz Gotthelf Osswald 1806–1884 · pharmacist
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Sigmund Osswald 1865–1942
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Sofie Osswald 1874–1942
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Osswald.
- Oses 191 · U.S. census
- Osinski 1,159 · U.S. census
- Osman 9,908 · U.S. census
- Osmani 861 · U.S. census
- Osmond 1,367 · U.S. census
- Ossola 174 · U.S. census
- Oster 6,259 · U.S. census
- Ostermann 956 · U.S. census
- Ostertag 969 · U.S. census
- Ostin 164 · U.S. census
- Ostrowski 7,005 · U.S. census
- Oswald 14,322 · U.S. census
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