Strasser

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Place name from the city of Strasburg in Alsace, in Karlsruhe too and in Hippenheim in Baden and Paltinate

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Strasser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Austria it is the 53rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 13K
  • USUnited States1 in 79K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈21,000 people, est.

Sources
315 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are 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)

Place name from the city of Strasburg in Alsace, in Karlsruhe too and in Hippenheim in Baden and Paltinate.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Strasser 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.

Where Strasser is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 65K—Strasser8
DE Germany#693≈6,000 est.≈1 in 13K—Strasser153
AT Austria#53≈5,100 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Strasser115
US United States—4,1961 in 79K4.2KStrasser315
ID Indonesia—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 154K—Strasser2
CH Switzerland#6381,1681 in 7.2K1.2KStrasser58
DZ Algeria—≈770 est.≈1 in 56K—Strasser2
IE Ireland—≈140 est.≈1 in 37K—Strasser6

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). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Strasser is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

    Also written Strässer

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Strässer, Štrasser

  • Slovak surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Poland, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Polish, Czech

    Also written Štrasser

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Štrasser

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Strasser is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 2100+1626.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Arthur Strasser, b. 1854Peter Strasser, b. 1876Gregor Strasser, b. 1892Otto Strasser, b. 1897Robin Strasser, b. 1945Morton Rhue, b. 1950Valentine Strasser, b. 1967Teresa Strasser, b. 1970Jeff Strasser, b. 1974Rodney Strasser, b. 1990

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Strasser
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.2K#7,891
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.1K#7,485
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.9K#8,190
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.2K#993
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Strasser mean, and where does it come from?
Place name from the city of Strasburg in Alsace, in Karlsruhe too and in Hippenheim in Baden and Paltinate. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
In which country does Strasser have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Strasser in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strasser.
How common is the name Strasser?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,196 people named Strasser in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
How common is Strasser compared with other names?
In Austria, Strasser is the 53rd most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Strasser” — the 53rd most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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