The Wiederkehr surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 368 people carried this name — #55,741 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 833,300 people counted. That is up 5% from 352 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
2,128 people named Wiederkehr live in Switzerland.
They live in 25 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 154 people named Wiederkehr.
14 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
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 Wiederkehr,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gustav Wiederkehr 1905–1972 · entrepreneur -
Louis Wiederkehr 1925–2010 · Malgré-nous -
Xaver Wiederkehr 1817–1868 · writer
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Alfons Wiederkehr 1915–1985 · architect
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K. H. Wiederkehr 1922–2012 · historian of science
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Peter Wiederkehr 1931–2010
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wiederkehr.
- Widmann 1,078 · U.S. census
- Widmer 3,336 · U.S. census
- Wiecek 316 · U.S. census
- Wieczorek 3,354 · U.S. census
- Wiedemann 1,635 · U.S. census
- Wieder 1,645 · U.S. census
- Wiedmann 583 · U.S. census
- Wiegand 6,004 · U.S. census
- Wiel 105 · U.S. census
- Wieland 5,314 · U.S. census
- Wiener 5,191 · U.S. census
- Wierzbicki 1,639 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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