The Ozer surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 567 people carried this name — #38,902 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 21% from 468 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 724 people named Ozer live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
393 people named Ozer live in Switzerland.
They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 76 people named Ozer.
Most of them — 65 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Var.
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
255 people named Ozer 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).
In print
Ozer in American newspapers,
1894–1934.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,558 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Ozer,
with a public archive behind them.
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Yossi Ozer 1952– · poet -
Rinchen Ozer 1453–1540 · writer
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Irma Jacqueline Ozer 1944–2020 · Germanist
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Hertzel Ozer 1956– · chief executive officer
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Pierre Ozer 1970– · geographer
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Jan Ozer 1975–
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 11 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ozer.
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