Hach

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: gbi; each person, numu gbi

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Hach is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 645K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 84K
  • NONorway≈1 in 116K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,000 people, est.

Sources
173 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

gbi; each person, numu gbi. “ When gbi is used with the definite form of nouns, it means all, every one—wa a kolo- isiagbibéindo; whenused with the indefinite form of the noun, it means, no, no one, not any—ba wa a kolo gbi béindo.” (?) But frequently gbi is found negatived by the lengthening of the vowel into gbi

Sources 1

  • Vocabulary of the Mende Language

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Hach is read(measured from records)

Hach is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English53%

    gbi; each person, numu gbi. “ When gbi is used with the definite form of nouns, it means all, every one—wa a kolo- isiagbibéindo; whenused with the indefinite form of the noun, it means, no, no one, not any—ba wa a kolo gbi béindo.” (?) But frequently gbi is found negatived by the lengthening of the vowel into gbi

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • German18%

    1. nickname or occupational name from Middle High German hache ‘young man’, ‘guy’, ‘boy’, ‘servant’ . 2. possibly a North German topographic name, from Low German hach ‘dirty water’. 3. (Eastern German) from a Slavic-influenced pet form of the personal name Hans.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    expresses musing or nostalgia

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French6.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hach in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hach 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 Hach is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈6,000 est.≈1 in 232K—Hach1
US United States5161 in 645K634Hach173
BR Brazil2811 in 753K281——
FR France≈180 est.≈1 in 373K6—1
CZ Czechia1271 in 84K127——
NO Norway≈47 est.≈1 in 116K—Hach1
DK Denmark311 in 189K31——

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Hach is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Poland

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Haech, Häch, Haèch, Hāčh, Hâch

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Morocco, Belgium

    Also written Hāčh, Hàch

  • Ukrainian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Czechia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Czech, Russian

    Also written Хэч

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Angola, Germany

    Also written Hách

  • a separate surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Tunisia

    Also written Hấch, Hách, Hắch, Hàch, Hạch

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hách

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hach is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, hajj

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, alternative form of hacche

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, h-prothesized form of ach

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Johann Friedrich Hach, b. 1769Adolph Hach, b. 1832Eduard Hach, b. 1841Theodor Hach, b. 1846Arno Hach, b. 1877Paul Hach, b. 1893Petr Hach, b. 1941Heather Hach, b. 1953Eugen Hach, b. 1960Lena Hach, b. 1982

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 Mr Hach,
InformalHi Hach,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Hach
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020634#37,718
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000558#37,534
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010516#42,094
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—281#27,928
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—127#13,436
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—126#6,967
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—31#16,355
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195110—

Reference works 4

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

What does the name Hach mean, and where does it come from?
gbi; each person, numu gbi. Recorded by Vocabulary of the Mende Language.
How do you pronounce Hach?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhætʃ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hach have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Hach in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hach.
Where is Hach most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hach is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 84 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hach?
In the United States, the national register counted 516 people named Hach in 2010, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.

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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, “Hach”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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