Laïch

surname · Latin script

Laïch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name from lai, a secondary form of Old High German Idh, Middle High German loch ‘leafy woodland’, ‘former wooded area’.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 100K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M
  • ESSpain1 in 3.6M

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.

United States (measured from records)

196 people, 2010

Sources
59 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laich in FR France, US United States, DZ Algeria.

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)

topographic name from lai, a secondary form of Old High German Idh, Middle High German loch ‘leafy woodland’, ‘former wooded area’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Laïch 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.

Where Laïch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1961 in 1.7M235Laich8
CH Switzerland841 in 100K84—1
ES Spain141 in 3.6M14—1
FR France≈7 est.≈1 in 9.4M6Laich59
DZ Algeria≈7 est.≈1 in 6.5M—Laich2

196 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Laïch under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Laïch mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name from lai, a secondary form of Old High German Idh, Middle High German loch ‘leafy woodland’, ‘former wooded area’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Laïch have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 196 people named Laïch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laich.
Where is Laïch most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laïch is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 100 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Laïch?
In the United States, the national register counted 196 people named Laïch in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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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, “Laïch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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