lAcHer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographical name for someone living in a muddy place near a pond, from Middle High German lache ‘pond’, ‘lake’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫækɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
lAcHer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 191K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 17K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographical name for someone living in a muddy place near a pond, from Middle High German lache ‘pond’, ‘lake’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
lAcHer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | lAcHer | 90 |
| US United States | 1,744 | 1 in 191K | 1.7K | lAcHer | 249 |
| CH Switzerland | 489 | 1 in 17K | 489 | lAcHer | 32 |
| GH Ghana | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | lAcHer | 6 |
| AT Austria | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | lAcHer | 31 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
lAcHer 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, laugher
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, laugher (one who laughs)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Julius Lacherb. 1845DEGerman jurist (1845-1919)
- Karl Lacherb. 1850DEGerman-Austrian sculptor and craftsman
- Max Lacherb. 1905DEGerman painter
- Hans Lacherb. 1912CHSwiss diplomat and lawyer (1912-2003)
- Roland Lacherb. 1942DEGerman entrepreneur
- Thomas E. Lacher, Jr.b. 1949USecologist and zoologist (1949 - )
- Blaine Lacherb. 1970CACanadian ice hockey player (1970–2024)
- Shenja Lacherb. 1978DEGerman actor
- Louisa Lacherb. 2000DEGerman association football player
- R. C. LacherUSuniversity teacher
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,475 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,861 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,969 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 489 | #2,646 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 lAcHer mean, and where does it come from?
- topographical name for someone living in a muddy place near a pond, from Middle High German lache ‘pond’, ‘lake’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce lAcHer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫækɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does lAcHer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named lAcHer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lAcHer.
- Where is lAcHer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, lAcHer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name lAcHer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,744 people named lAcHer in 2010, about 1 in 191 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/lacherThe 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, “lAcHer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.