The Wyss surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,102 people carried this name — #14,257 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 140,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 2,059 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
12,423 people named Wyss live in Switzerland.
They live in all 26 of Switzerland’s 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 201 people named Wyss.
51 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 32 départements, most often Paris.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 115 people named Wyss 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 Córdoba.
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 the Nordic population registers
22 people named Wyss 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).
In print
Wyss in American newspapers,
1912.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
Who carried it
People named Wyss,
with a public archive behind them.
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David Wyss 1632–1700 · theologian -
Matthias Wyss d. 1528
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Dorothea Wyss 1430–1487
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Bernhard Wyss 1463–1531
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Matthias Wyss 1500–1528 · politician
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Anton Wyss 1560–1569 · physician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wyss.
- Wurtzel 411 · U.S. census
- Wust 157 · U.S. census
- Wuthrich 765 · U.S. census
- Wyffels 403 · U.S. census
- Wypych 213 · U.S. census
- Wysocki 4,758 · U.S. census
- Xavier 3,367 · U.S. census
- Ximenez 401 · U.S. census
- Xiong 37,499 · U.S. census
- Xu 25,622 · U.S. census
- Xuereb 245 · U.S. census
- Ya 600 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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