Horsch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname, variant of Horst; bearers: 699
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Horsch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 50Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 80K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname, variant of Horst; bearers: 699.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where the surname Horsch is found
(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 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Horsch | 93 |
| US United States | 961 | 1 in 346K | 961 | Horsch | 187 |
| NL Netherlands | 216 | 1 in 80K | 216 | Horsch | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Horsch | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Horsch | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Horsch | 1 |
| GY Guyana | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Horsch | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Horsch | 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Lucie Horschb. 1999NLDutch recorder player
- Anne Horschb. 2000DEGerman organist
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Horsch?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Horsch in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horsch. After it come United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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?
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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 2026-10-13.