The Ringwald surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 765 people carried this name — #30,509 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 384,600 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (768).
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 169 people named Ringwald.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 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
32 people named Ringwald live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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.
Who carried it
People named Ringwald,
with a public archive behind them.
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Fritz Ringwald 1874–1957 · engineer -
Charles Ringwald 1847–1895 · politician
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Edith Ringwald 1890–1974 · jurist
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Roy Ringwald 1910–1995 · composer
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Winfried Ringwald 1950– · rower
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Jean-Claude Ringwald 1952– · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ringwald.
- Rinderknecht 437 · 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
- Rinn 929 · U.S. census
- Rinner 276 · U.S. census
- Rio 1,581 · U.S. census
- Rion 673 · U.S. census
- Rios 127,794 · U.S. census
- Riou 116 · U.S. census
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