The Tschanz surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 290 people carried this name — #67,943 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is up 12% from 258 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
2,629 people named Tschanz 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 Argentina’s national register
At least 97 people named Tschanz live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 72 people named Tschanz.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Haute-Savoie.
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 Tschanz,
with a public archive behind them.
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Otto Tschanz 1869–1919 · railway engineer -
David Tschanz 1717–1784
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Mark Tschanz 1901– · composer
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Hans Tschanz 1902–1982 · politician
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Beat Tschanz 1920–2013 · scientist
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Susanne Gerber-Tschanz 1921– · school teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tschanz.
- Trudelle 290 · U.S. census
- Trujillo 73,664 · U.S. census
- Truong 38,267 · U.S. census
- Trutt 258 · U.S. census
- Truttmann 128 · U.S. census
- Try 371 · U.S. census
- Tschirhart 798 · U.S. census
- Tschopp 357 · U.S. census
- Tschudy 459 · U.S. census
- Tschupp 104 · U.S. census
- Tu 9,230 · U.S. census
- Tua 296 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Tschanz is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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