The Rufenacht surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 391 people carried this name — #52,970 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. That is up 7% from 367 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
1,812 people named Rufenacht live in Switzerland.
They live in 23 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
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 111 people named Rufenacht.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Doubs.
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 Rufenacht,
with a public archive behind them.
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Frederick Rufenacht Walters 1857–1946 · author
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Frederick Rufenacht Walters 1857–1946 · author
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Antoine Rufenacht 1939–2020 · politician
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rufenacht.
- Ruel 1,387 · U.S. census
- Ruelle 559 · U.S. census
- Ruen 290 · U.S. census
- Ruesch 1,054 · U.S. census
- Ruez 229 · U.S. census
- Ruf 1,794 · U.S. census
- Rufer 416 · U.S. census
- Ruff 15,383 · U.S. census
- Ruffenach 131 · U.S. census
- Ruffier 118 · U.S. census
- Ruffin 16,324 · U.S. census
- Ruffing 2,446 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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