Gasser

At the 2020 census, 2,829 Americans bore the surname Gasser — 10,777th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 106,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,829
Rank: 10,777th
How common: 1 in 106,000
Per 100,000: 0.95

Where the name comes from

German, Swiss German, and Jewish topographic surname for one who lived in a side street or alley, from a derivative of Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, or Yiddish gas.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gasser described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 94.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Gasser

Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888–1963)American physiologist
Anna Gasser (born 1991)Austrian snowboarder
Sandra Gasser (born 1962)Swiss middle-distance runner

People named Gasser with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gasser

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.