The Ranger surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,323 people carried this name — #12,277 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 116,300 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 414 people named Ranger.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 31 départements, most often Vienne.
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
21 people named Ranger live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
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 Ranger.
- Rancher 276 · U.S. census
- Rancier 153 · U.S. census
- Randazzo 6,944 · U.S. census
- Randon 455 · U.S. census
- Randy 208 · U.S. census
- Rang 763 · U.S. census
- Ranieri 2,810 · U.S. census
- Rano 143 · U.S. census
- Ranson 3,159 · U.S. census
- Rantz 746 · U.S. census
- Ranucci 329 · U.S. census
- Rao 8,423 · U.S. census
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