The Weisse surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 546 people carried this name — #40,144 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 3% from 531 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 641 people named Weisse.
24 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 47 départements, most often Moselle.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
36 people named Weisse live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Thurgau.
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.
Who carried it
People named Weisse,
with a public archive behind them.
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Josef Weisse 1812–1897 · rabbi -
Johan Peter Weisse 1832–1886 · historian -
Faneuil D. Weisse 1842–1915 · oral and maxillofacial surgeon -
Adolf Weisse 1855–1933 · actor -
Charles H. Weisse 1866–1919 · businessperson -
Maximilian von Weisse 1798–1863 · astronomer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Weisse.
- Weisbecker 427 · U.S. census
- Weiser 5,421 · U.S. census
- Weisgerber 1,125 · U.S. census
- Weishaar 1,824 · U.S. census
- Weishaupt 487 · U.S. census
- Weiss 57,112 · U.S. census
- Weissenburger 151 · U.S. census
- Weisser 1,768 · U.S. census
- Weissgerber 212 · U.S. census
- Weisskopf 183 · U.S. census
- Weissler 215 · U.S. census
- Weissmann 604 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Weisse is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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