The Vasseur surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 809 people carried this name — #29,261 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 370,400 people counted. That is up 8% from 747 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Vasseur surname
Vasseur: a surname.
From Old French vavasour.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Vasseur» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 12,594 people named Vasseur.
73 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 91 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
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 Belgium’s population register
At least 217 people named Vasseur live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
63 people named Vasseur live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
44 people named Vasseur is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Vasseur,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jean-Charles Le Vasseur 1734–1816 · engraver -
Léon Vasseur 1844–1917 · composer -
Georges Louis Vasseur 1807–1851 · politician
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Jean Baptiste Vasseur 1815–1883 · chemist
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François Joseph Vasseur 1827–
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Adolphe Vasseur 1828–1899 · Catholic theologian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Vasseur.
- Vasconi 217 · U.S. census
- Vasic 210 · U.S. census
- Vasile 1,110 · U.S. census
- Vasquez 212,781 · U.S. census
- Vassallo 3,205 · U.S. census
- Vassel 512 · U.S. census
- Vassor 269 · U.S. census
- Vastine 484 · U.S. census
- Vater 602 · U.S. census
- Vautier 213 · U.S. census
- Vautour 382 · U.S. census
- Vautrin 276 · U.S. census
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