Liechti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, Swiss German Liechti
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪkti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liechti is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CHSwitzerland
- USUnited States
- BBBarbados
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, Swiss German Liechti.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
- Erhard Liechtib. 1530CHSwiss watchmaker (1530-1591)
- Hermann Liechtib. 1850CHSwiss politician (1850-1921)
- Paul Liechtib. 1866CHSwiss chemist (1866-1927)
- Dagmar Liechti-von Braschb. 1911CH(1911-1993)
- Hans Liechtib. 1946CHSwiss cinematographer and director
- Fee Liechtib. 1947CHSwiss film editor
- Peter Liechtib. 1951CHfilm director (1951-2014)
- Fabienne Liechtib. 1978CHprofessional Dancer
- Aron Liechtib. 1986CHSwiss footballer
- Jasmin Liechtib. 2002CHSwiss cyclist
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4.6K | #127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 391 | #52,970 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 386 | #57,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 372 | #52,403 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 54 | #9,875 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,597 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Liechti mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, Swiss German Liechti. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Liechti?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪkti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Liechti have the most bearers?
- Liechti is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liechtiThe 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
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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, “Liechti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.