Traber surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Traber surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 444 people carried this name — #45,403 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 625,000 people counted.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

712 people named Traber live in Switzerland.

They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 199
Thurgau 164
St. Gallen 124
Vaud 39
Bern 35
Aargau 27
Solothurn 24
Basel-Stadt 21

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 107 people named Traber.

7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 7
Bas-Rhin 46
Haut-Rhin 29
Moselle 11
Meurthe-et-Moselle 5
Var 3
Territoire de Belfort 2
Essonne 2
Seine-Saint-Denis 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Traber is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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