The Rinderknecht surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 437 people carried this name — #48,347 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 666,700 people counted. That is up 11% from 392 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
358 people named Rinderknecht live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 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 74 people named Rinderknecht.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Haut-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.
Who carried it
People named Rinderknecht,
with a public archive behind them.
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Hans Jakob Rinderknecht 1893–1977 · pedagogue
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Peter Rinderknecht 1954– · actor
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Christine Rinderknecht 1954– · writer
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Theodor Rinderknecht 1958– · sport cyclist
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Martin Rinderknecht 1972– · photographer
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Andrés Rinderknecht 1977– · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rinderknecht.
- Rimlinger 124 · U.S. census
- Rinaldi 7,756 · U.S. census
- Rinaldo 1,052 · U.S. census
- Rinaudo 380 · U.S. census
- Rinck 733 · U.S. census
- Rincon 16,455 · U.S. census
- Ring 16,381 · U.S. census
- Ringeisen 391 · U.S. census
- Ringenbach 194 · U.S. census
- Ringler 3,472 · U.S. census
- Ringo 2,596 · U.S. census
- Ringwald 765 · U.S. census
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