Käch
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Käch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for someone with a loud laugh, from a noun derivative of Middle High German kachen ‘to laugh’.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2Mas Kaech(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
- ATAustria≈1 in 830Kas Kaech
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 Käch 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
755 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kaech in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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)nickname for someone with a loud laugh, from a noun derivative of Middle High German kachen ‘to laugh’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Käch 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 755 | 1 in 11K | 755 | Käch | 22 |
| US United States | 149as Kaech | 1 in 2.2M | 160 | Kaech | 67 |
| DE Germany | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Kaech | 17 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Kaech | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Kaech | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Kaech | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Kaech | 4 |
755 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; 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)- Walter Kächb. 1901CH(1901-1970)
- Adolf Kächb. 1904CHSwiss politician (1904-1992)
- Jakob Kächb. 1908CHSwiss politician (1908-1983)
- Arnold Kächb. 1914CHSwiss military officer, skier, ski official and writer (1914-1998)
- Hugo Kächb. 1927CHSwiss conductor, composer and music director (1927-2003)
- Horst Kächentomologist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 755 | #1,628 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Käch mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for someone with a loud laugh, from a noun derivative of Middle High German kachen ‘to laugh’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Käch have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 755 people named Käch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled käch.
- Where is Käch most common?
- Käch is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Käch?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 755 people named Käch in 2024, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A4chThe 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, “Käch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.