Hochstrasser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by on a high-lying street, from Middle High German hohe ‘high’ -I- straze ‘street’, ‘road’ •+• the agent suffix -er
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɑkstɹæsɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hochstrasser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 927K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.4K
- ATAustria≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,552 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived by on a high-lying street, from Middle High German hohe ‘high’ -I- straze ‘street’, ‘road’ •+• the agent suffix -er.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hochstrasser counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #658 | 1,552 | 1 in 5.4K | 1.6K | Hochstrasser | 54 |
| US United States | — | 359 | 1 in 927K | 359 | Hochstrasser | 125 |
| FR France | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 268K | 43 | Hochstrasser | 101 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Hochstrasser | 39 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Hochstrasser | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 648K | — | Hochstrasser | 21 |
1,552 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Candid Hochstrasserb. 1846CHSwiss politician (1846-1908)
- Ferenc Hartaib. 1895HUnot in their usual name(1895-1970) flautist, music pedagogue
- Urs Hochstrasserb. 1926CHDr. math. ETH Zürich 1954
- Robin M. Hochstrasserb. 1931GBScottish chemist
- Alois J. Hochstrasserb. 1941ATAustrian musician and conductor
- Denis Hochstrasserb. 1953CHSwiss medical researcher
- Mark Hochstrasserb. 1959USbiophysics researcher
- Michael Hochstrasserb. 1976CHchess player from Swiss
- Xavier Hochstrasserb. 1988CHSwiss footballer
- Alfred HochstrasserUSAmerican composer and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.6K | #668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 359 | #56,836 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 343 | #62,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 339 | #56,392 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 32 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hochstrasser mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by on a high-lying street, from Middle High German hohe ‘high’ -I- straze ‘street’, ‘road’ •+• the agent suffix -er. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hochstrasser?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑkstɹæsɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hochstrasser have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Hochstrasser, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hochstrasser.
- Where is Hochstrasser most common?
- Hochstrasser is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hochstrasser?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,552 people named Hochstrasser in 2024, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Hochstrasser compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Hochstrasser is the 658th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hochstrasserThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hochstrasser” — the 658th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.