Tisch
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tisch is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In German, recorded as occupational name for a table-maker; also from household objects as house names.
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a table-maker; also from household objects as house names.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tisch is read(measured from records)
Tisch is one spelling over 2 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.
- English76%
Preston, US government official
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German12%
occupational name for a table-maker; also from household objects as house names.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
table
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
table (a piece of furniture with a relatively deep surface at roughly waist or knee level); specific uses include:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
mittelb. Berufsn. = Tischmacher = Tisch | er, ler, ner, Disch | er, leir, ner (> lit. diszere > Disch- reit, Ditsdiereit.). Tisch, ¡- bein, brett. Satzn.: Rich- tentisch, Deckendysch (aber Tisch | bier,, per wohl si. wie Tischbirek.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cläre Tischb. 1907DEGerman economist
- Laurence Tischb. 1923USAmerican businessman (1923-2003)
- Preston Robert Tischb. 1926USAmerican businessman and United States Postmaster general
- Joan Tischb. 1926USAmerican billionaire
- Harry Tischb. 1927DEGerman politician (1927-1995)
- Steve Tischb. 1949USAmerican businessman
- Jonathan Tischb. 1953USAmerican businessman
- James Tischb. 1953USAmerican businessperson, corporate director. President and CEO, Loews
- Jamie Tischb. 1968USBusiness Woman, Philanthropist, Fund Raiser
- Andrew TischUSAmerican businessperson and board member, Chair, Loews Corporation
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tisch mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a table-maker; also from household objects as house names. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Tisch?
- In the etymology graph, Stuhl is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tisch have the most bearers?
- Tisch is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Tisch?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tischThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tisch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.