Kacher
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for someone with a loud laugh, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kachen ‘to laugh’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kacher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 37Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 260K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 260K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname for someone with a loud laugh, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kachen ‘to laugh’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kacher is found
(measured from records)Kacher 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Kacher | 8 |
| IN India | 611 | 1 in 2.2M | 611 | Kacher | 40 |
| US United States | 274 | 1 in 1.2M | 291 | Kacher | 10 |
| FR France | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 259K | 39 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 9 | — | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 542K | — | Kacher | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 260K | listed | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dz-kaggle-names register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)Kacher is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ornamental name from Yiddish katsher ‘drake’. Compare Kacer.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Americanized spelling of Kacer, Kachur, or Kaczor.
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)- Fred Kacherb. 1968USU.S. Navy admiral
- Mastanabal Kacherb. 1995CACanadian association football player
- Chris Kacherb. 2000USAmerican businessman
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kacher mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for someone with a loud laugh, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kachen ‘to laugh’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kacher?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Kacher in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kacher. After it come India, United States, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kacher?
- In India, the national register counted 611 people named Kacher, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kacherThe 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, “Kacher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.