Ganser Family Crest and Last Name Background

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Ganser coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line.

Ganser by the numbers

Ganser turns up in national name statistics on both sides of the Atlantic. Ganser ranked 24,124 in the 2010 US Census, with 1,043 people answering to the name. French birth records list 110 children named Ganser between 1891 and 2000. There were 14 such births in the 1890s and 6 in the 1990s.

Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Ganser, the family's own records come first. Ganser is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name.

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