Pech

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Pecher; also to Pech 'pitch' or place names

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 177K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 288K
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.1K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,100 people, est.

Sources
141 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Pecher; also to Pech 'pitch' or place names

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pech 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 Pech is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 22K320—3
CZ Czechia—2,1141 in 5.1K2.1K——
US United States—1,8771 in 177K2.1KPech127
BR Brazil—7351 in 288K735Pech44
ID Indonesia—≈290 est.≈1 in 925K—Pech6
GT Guatemala—≈250 est.≈1 in 69K—Pech10
PY Paraguay—≈56 est.≈1 in 129K—Pech6
SK Slovakia—521 in 105K52——
MX Mexico#282——1.5KPech141

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)

Pech is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Péch, Pèch

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Pěch, Péch

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Also written Péch, Pêch, Pèch, Pueg

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Péch

  • English given name69 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, United Kingdom, Sweden

    Languages: English, Finnish, Chinese

    Also written Peg, Pekka, Peck, Peka, Пекка

45 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)

Pech is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, occupational name for a shoemaker; from pitch

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In English, An indigenous Amerindian language spoken in Honduras.

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

  • In Russian, var of Pekh.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In German, pitch (sticky substance)

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

  • In sco, to pant, gasp for breath

    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)

180018501900195020002050Flavien Pech de Cadel, b. 1849Gabriel Pech, b. 1854Raymond Pech, b. 1876Miloš Pech, b. 1927Michel Pech, b. 1946Leydy Pech, b. 1965Philippe Pech, b. 1966Benjamin Pech, b. 1974Lukáš Pech, b. 1983Dominik Pech, b. 2006

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)

FormalEstimado/a Pech,Dear Pech, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Pech,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Pech
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2.1K#545
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—2.1K#544
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—2.1K#544
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.1K#13,977
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,579
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,176
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—1.5K#244
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—735#12,090
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961502—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921476—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941467—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951407—

Reference works 5

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 Pech mean, and where does it come from?
from Pecher; also to Pech 'pitch' or place names Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Pech?
A machine transcription gives /petʃ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Pech have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Pech in France, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pech most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pech is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pech?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,114 people named Pech, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
How common is Pech compared with other names?
In Mexico, Pech is the 282nd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pech” — the 282nd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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