Ketchum
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɛtʃəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ketchum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Ketcham.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- THThailand≈1 in 574Kas เกษชม
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ketchum itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
8,407 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เกษชม in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Ketcham.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ketchum 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,407 | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Ketchum | 71 |
| TH Thailand | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 574K | #845,246 | เกษชม | 30 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
8,407 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Ketchumb. 1798US14th mayor of Buffalo, NY (1798–1876)
- William Scott Ketchumb. 1813USAmerican general
- Annie Chambers Ketchumb. 1824USAmerican educator, lecturer, and writer (1824-1904)
- Tom Ketchumb. 1863USAmerican gunman (1863–1901)
- Gerald Ketchumb. 1908USExplorer of Antarctica (1908–1992)
- William M. Ketchumb. 1921USAmerican politician (1921-1978)
- David Ketchumb. 1928USAmerican actor
- Jack Ketchumb. 1946USAmerican horror writer (1946-2018)
- Hal Ketchumb. 1953USAmerican musician and singer
- Dan Ketchumb. 1981USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion
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 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.4K | #4,213 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.2K | #3,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.9K | #4,331 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ketchum mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Ketcham. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Ketchum?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛtʃəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ketchum have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Ketchum, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ketchum.
- Where is Ketchum most common?
- Ketchum is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ketchum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,407 people named Ketchum in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ketchumThe 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, “Ketchum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.