The Schwab surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 16,332 people carried this name — #2,035 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 16,500 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
4,099 people named Schwab live in Switzerland.
They live in 25 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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,122 people named Schwab.
84 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 61 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 print
Schwab in American newspapers,
1902–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 171,291 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Schwab,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gustav Schwab 1792–1850 · writer -
Löw Schwab 1794–1857 · rabbi -
Adolf Schwab 1833–1897 · businessperson -
Thomas Schwab 1836–1914 · innkeeper -
Charles M. Schwab 1862–1939 · businessperson
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 184 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Schwab.
- Schurr 1,525 · U.S. census
- Schuster 17,221 · U.S. census
- Schutt 4,309 · U.S. census
- Schutz 5,194 · U.S. census
- Schutze 248 · U.S. census
- Schwaab 243 · U.S. census
- Schwach 165 · U.S. census
- Schwager 1,633 · U.S. census
- Schwalbach 691 · U.S. census
- Schwaller 561 · U.S. census
- Schwalm 1,608 · U.S. census
- Schwander 356 · U.S. census
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