Horsch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname, variant of Horst; bearers: 699
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɔɹʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horsch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 346K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 54K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname, variant of Horst; bearers: 699.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Horsch 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 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Horsch | 93 |
| US United States | 961 | 1 in 346K | 961 | Horsch | 187 |
| NL Netherlands | 216 | 1 in 80K | 216 | Horsch | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 409K | — | Horsch | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Horsch | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Horsch | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Horsch | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 37 | 1 in 227K | 37 | Horsch | 14 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Horsch 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.
topographic name from a dialect form of Middle High German horst, hurst ‘undergrowth’, ‘brushwood’, of Slavic origin in eastern regions, e.g. the place name Horscha (Lausitz).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Adolphe Horschb. 1864FRFrench playwright, theatre director and actor (1864-1937)
- John Horschb. 1867DEMennonite historian (1867-1941)
- Nicolas Horschb. 1889BEBelgian weightlifter
- Paul Horschb. 1925CHSwiss indologist (1925-1971)
- Lucie Horschb. 1999NLDutch recorder player
- Anne Horschb. 2000DEGerman organist
- Alexander HorschDEPh.D. Technische Universität München 1987
- Marion Horschresearcher
- Antje HorschCHresearcher
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 961 | #25,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 955 | #26,847 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 887 | #25,991 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 216 | #9,640 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 37 | #23,367 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Horsch mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname, variant of Horst; bearers: 699. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Horsch?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔɹʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Horsch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Horsch in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horsch.
- How common is the name Horsch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 961 people named Horsch in 2010, about 1 in 346 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Horsch?
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/horschThe 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, “Horsch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.