Korch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Czech krch, Wendish korch 'lame, awkward'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɔɹk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Korch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 212Kas Корч(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 79K
- DKDenmark1 in 98K
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 Korch 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
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
229 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Корч in UA Ukraine.
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)
from Czech krch, Wendish korch 'lame, awkward'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
How Korch is read(measured from records)
Korch is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English57%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Korch in English.
- German14%
from Czech krch, Wendish korch 'lame, awkward'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Polish6.9%
nickname from korch, variant of karch, from karchut ‘left hand’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Ukrainian5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Korch in Ukrainian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Korch 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.
229 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Morten Korchb. 1876DKDanish writer (1876–1954)
- Johanne Korchb. 1882DKDanish author
- Morten A. Korchb. 1909DKDanish publisher
- Oliver Korchb. 1994Danish association football player
- Michał KorchPLPolish mathematician
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 290 | #72,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 287 | #64,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 229 | #82,317 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 138 | #6,674 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 135 | #12,671 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 80 | #74,802 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 60 | #8,911 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 57 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 57 | #45,380 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 52 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 52 | #48,856 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Korch mean, and where does it come from?
- from Czech krch, Wendish korch 'lame, awkward' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Korch?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔɹk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Korch have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 229 people named Korch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled korch.
- Where is Korch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Korch is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 79 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Korch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 229 people named Korch in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Korch?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/korchThe 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, “Korch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.