Schweizer

At the 2020 census, 2,979 Americans bore the surname Schweizer — 10,285th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 100,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,979
Rank: 10,285th
How common: 1 in 100,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Schweizer

Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer (1816–1873)Swiss astronomer
Irène Schweizer (1941–2024)Swiss jazz pianist

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

Surnames like Schweizer

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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.