The Zwahlen surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 469 people carried this name — #45,569 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 625,000 people counted. That is up 15% from 408 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
3,262 people named Zwahlen live in Switzerland.
They live in 24 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 82 people named Zwahlen.
22 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Paris.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
55 people named Zwahlen 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 Zwahlen,
with a public archive behind them.
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Louis Zwahlen 1903–1987 · physician -
Abraham André Zwahlen 1830–1903 · painter
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Louis Zwahlen 1857–1919 · businessperson
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Christian Zwahlen 1904–1977 · painter
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Jean-Louis Zwahlen 1908–1964
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Henri Zwahlen 1911–1974 · federal judge
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Zwahlen.
- Zurawski 1,503 · U.S. census
- Zurcher 1,343 · U.S. census
- Zurek 1,442 · U.S. census
- Zurfluh 433 · U.S. census
- Zurita 4,770 · U.S. census
- Zurlinden 142 · U.S. census
- Zwick 2,273 · U.S. census
- Zwickel 140 · U.S. census
- Zwiebel 789 · U.S. census
- Zwinger 121 · U.S. census
- Zych 1,523 · U.S. census
- Zygmunt 646 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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