Fotsch

surname · Latin script

/fɔtʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Fotsch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cayman Islands it is the 61st most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
  • KYCayman Islands≈1 in 14K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 156K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fotsch itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

151 people, 2010

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Cayman Islands, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fötsch in DE Germany, AT Austria.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fotsch 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 Fotsch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1511 in 2.2M151Fotsch114
DE Germany—≈96 est.≈1 in 834K—Fötsch24
AT Austria—≈57 est.≈1 in 156K—Fötsch9
CH Switzerland—471 in 179K47Fotsch12
BR Brazil—30as Foetsch1 in 7.1M30——
MY Malaysia—≈20 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Fotsch1
KY Cayman Islands#61≈5 est.≈1 in 14K—Fotsch3

151 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Fotsch is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fötsch

20 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Fotsch,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Fotsch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010151#115,639
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020140#127,742
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000117#133,114
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202447#19,565
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Fotsch?
A machine transcription gives /fɔtʃ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Fotsch have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 151 people named Fotsch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fotsch.
How common is the name Fotsch?
In the United States, the national register counted 151 people named Fotsch in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
How common is Fotsch compared with other names?
In Cayman Islands, Fotsch is the 61st most common surname of 65 surnames recorded there.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Fotsch” — the 61st most common surname in Cayman Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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