The Rist surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,832 people carried this name — #14,841 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 147,100 people counted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
109 people named Rist live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 61 people named Rist.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rist.
- Rispoli 1,269 · U.S. census
- Riss 550 · U.S. census
- Risse 828 · U.S. census
- Rissel 130 · U.S. census
- Risser 1,735 · U.S. census
- Risso 557 · U.S. census
- Ristic 328 · U.S. census
- Rita 1,225 · U.S. census
- Ritt 789 · U.S. census
- Ritter 32,864 · U.S. census
- Ritz 6,255 · U.S. census
- Ritzenthaler 393 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Rist is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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