The Pabst surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,331 people carried this name — #12,248 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 116,300 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
266 people named Pabst live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
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 164 people named Pabst.
24 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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.
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