Bache
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bache is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as pothole.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 107K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 108K
- USUnited States1 in 356K
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)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A wild sow, female wild boar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bache is read(measured from records)
Bache is one spelling over 4 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.
- English54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bache in English.
- French15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bache in French.
- Spanish7.4%
pothole
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.4%
A wild sow, female wild boar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bache 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Bache | 2 |
| US United States | 935 | 1 in 356K | 969 | Bache | 219 |
| DE Germany | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Bache | 69 |
| FR France | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 109 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Bache | 112 |
| NO Norway | 346 | 1 in 16K | 346 | Bache | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 317 | 1 in 19K | 317 | — | 2 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bache is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vls, tarpaulin
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)
- Richard Bacheb. 1737USAmerican businessman and Postmaster General
- Sarah Franklin Bacheb. 1743US(1743-1808) daughter of Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin Bacheb. 1769USAmerican journalist, printer and publisher (1769-1798)
- Richard Bache Jr.b. 1784USAmerican politician (1784-1848)
- Alexander Dallas Bacheb. 1806USAmerican scientist (1806-1867)
- Francis Edward Bacheb. 1833GBBritish composer and pianist (1833–1858)
- Otto Bacheb. 1839DKDanish painter and illustrator (1839–1927)
- George M. Bacheb. 1840USUnited States naval officer
- Jules Bacheb. 1861USAmerican banker, art collector and philanthropist (1861-1944)
- Joseph Bacheb. 1880GBEnglish footballer (1880-1960)
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 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 969 | #26,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 935 | #26,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 919 | #25,304 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 346 | #4,318 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 317 | #1,461 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 172 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 134 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 106 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 102 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Bache come from?
- A wild sow, female wild boar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Bache mean?
- In Spanish, pothole
- What are other forms of the name Bache?
- In the etymology graph, Bacher is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bache have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Bache in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bache.
- Where is Bache most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bache is densest in Norway — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bache?
- In the United States, the national register counted 935 people named Bache in 2010, about 1 in 356 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bache?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bacheThe 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, “Bache”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.