Foser
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Foser is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. In Liechtenstein it is the 44th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.
- LILiechtenstein1 in 241◐
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
- ARArgentina1 in 3M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25 ●
- Sources
- 44 ●
- 1 in 840K ◐
across 2 countries
383 records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 291 | 269 rec. | — | listed | Foser | 44 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #44 | 247 | 3 rec. | — | 104 | Foser | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 41 | 39 rec. | — | — | Foser | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 28 | 24 rec. | — | — | Foser | 16 |
| AR Argentina | — | 15 | — | 1 in 3M | 15 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 10 | 18 rec. | 1 in 840K | 10 | Foser | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Foser | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Foser | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English35739%
- German31735%
- Spanish11312%
- 8810%
- ux61%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 357 | 39% |
| German | 317 | 35% |
| Spanish | 113 | 12% |
| 88 | 10% | |
| ux | 6 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Foser 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 Breton, fossoyeur
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LI Liechtenstein | Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) | 2020 | 104 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 15 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Foser?
- We estimate roughly 25 people bear Foser (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Foser have the most bearers?
- Foser is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled foser.
- How common is Foser compared with other names?
- In Liechtenstein, Foser is the 44th most common surname of 657 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Foser” — the 44th most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.