# Gasser (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gasser/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,024 |
| US rank (2010) | 10,596 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 102,098 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.4% (2,952 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

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.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gasser in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gasser in the United States and Austria.

## People named Gasser

- Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist (1888-1963)
- Anna Gasser, Austrian snowboarder

## Similar surnames

Gaiser, Gosser, Gauger, Gager, Gasior, Geiger, Geiser, Guizar, Giguere, Goucher.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.