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The Swiss Family Krähenbühl Today

The pages of the Swiss Telecom White Pages make for some interesting social analysis.   There are currently 2,231 listings of 11 different variations of the family name in Switzerland. Nearly three-quarters of the families listed use the spelling Krähenbühl. Kreienbühl is the spelling used by 17 percent of the families.

  TOTALS BE ZH LN AU VD SN BL BS SZ TH GE SG ZG GR TI NE FR VS JU NI AR GL UR OB SN IR
Krähenbühl 1657 834 181 62 87 70 66 43 43 6 37 45 26 22 23 23 32 21 13 13 4 1 2 0 2 1 0
Kreienbühl 388 41 50 108 44 6 9 20 15 16 8 1 13 8 13 7 0 8 1 2 9 6 1 2 0 0 0
Kreyenbühl 61 4 9 32 7 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kryenbühl 56 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0 0 3 18 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Krayenbühl 46 0 10 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 2 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kraehenbuhl 9 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kraehenbuehl 7 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Krayenbuehl 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kreienbuehl 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kreyenbuehl 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kryenbuehl 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2231 879 252 204 138 109 76 65 58 52 49 48 48 48 39 37 33 32 20 15 13 7 3 3 2 1 0

This table shows the distribution of families in the cantons of Switzerland.

Abbreviations: BE=Bern, ZH=Zurich, LN=Luzern, AU=Aargau, VD=Vaud, AU=Solothurn, BL=Basel-landschaft, BS=Basel, SZ=Schwyz, TH=Thurgau, GE=Geneve, SG=Sankt Gallen, ZG=Zug, GR=Graubunden, TI=Ticino, NE=Neuchatel, FR=Fribourg, VS=Valais, JU=Jura, NI=Nidwalden, AR=Ausser-Rhoden, GL=Glarus, UR=Uri, OB=Obwalden, SN=Schaffhausen, IR=Inner-rhoden.

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This is a pie chart showing the percentages of each spelling variation.

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By far the largest concentration of Krähenbühls is in the Canton of Bern.

Last modified 12/02/03 by Margaret Crabill Mead.
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