Löscher
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. lösch(e) 'feines Leder'; auch möglicher Berufsname zum Feuerlöscher/Schiedsmann
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
Löscher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 18Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 55K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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 Löscher itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Loescher in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and Loscher in BR Brazil, BB Barbados.
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
(measured from records)Berufsname zu mhd. lösch(e) 'feines Leder'; auch möglicher Berufsname zum Feuerlöscher/Schiedsmann. 1021 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Löscher 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 55K | listed | Löscher | 59 |
| US United States | 761as Loescher | 1 in 437K | 761 | Loescher | 183 |
| AT Austria | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Löscher | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 577K | — | Loescher | 31 |
| CA Canada | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Loescher | 29 |
| BR Brazil | 33 | 1 in 6.4M | 33 | Loscher | 19 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Loescher | 1 |
| BB Barbados | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Loscher | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Löscher is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname: Hersteller von Lösch, feinem Wildleder; auch indir. Berufsname. Varianten zu Lösch/Lösche.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, from place names Leschen/Döbeln or Löschau/Bautzen
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Caspar Loescherb. 1636DEGerman theologian
- Valentin Ernst Löscherb. 1673DEGerman theologian
- Carl Immanuel Loescherb. 1750DEGerman geologist and inventor
- Hermann Loescherb. 1831DEGerman-Italian publisher (1831–1892)
- Richard Albert Löscherb. 1860DEGerman politician and farmer
- Dominik Löscherb. 1877ATAustrian actor (1877-1941)
- Gil Loescherb. 1945USAmerican political scientist (1945-2020)
- Peter Löscherb. 1957ATAustrian businessman
- Lutz Löscherb. 1960DEEast German swimmer (* 1960)
- Nautyn McKay-Loescherb. 1981CAPlayer of American and Canadian football
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)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Löscher mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. lösch(e) 'feines Leder'; auch möglicher Berufsname zum Feuerlöscher/Schiedsmann.
- In which country does Löscher have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Löscher in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled löscher.
- How common is the name Löscher?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 33 people named Löscher, about 1 in 6.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B6scherThe 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, “Löscher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.