Locht
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/lɔxt/(recorded in a dictionary) Dutch · from Wiktionary
Locht is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In German, recorded as inflection of lochen:.
- DKDenmark1 in 48K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 54K
- NLNetherlands1 in 129K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Locht is read
(measured from records)Locht is one spelling over 5 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.
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Locht in English.
- German23%
inflection of lochen:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Übername zu mnd. lucht, locht „links“; ggf. auch Wohnstättenname. 53 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Dutch17%
a hamlet in Cranendonck, North Brabant, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Locht in French.
- Danish7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Locht in Danish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Locht 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Locht | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Locht | 53 |
| BE Belgium | 219 | 1 in 54K | 227 | Locht | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | 134 | 1 in 129K | 134 | Locht | 29 |
| DK Denmark | 123 | 1 in 48K | 123 | — | 2 |
| TL Timor-Leste | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Locht | 1 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Locht 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 Irish, fault, defect, blemish, flaw, imperfection
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, fault
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)- Paul Lochtb. 1929DKDanish rower (1929–2023)
- Jan Lochtb. 1947DKDrummer in Bamses Venner
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 227 | #7,815 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 219 | #7,733 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 134 | #14,978 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 123 | #4,428 |
Reference works 4
- 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
- How do you pronounce Locht?
- In Dutch /lɔxt/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Locht mean?
- In German, inflection of lochen:
- In which country does Locht have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 947 people named Locht in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled locht.
- Where is Locht most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Locht is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Locht?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 219 people named Locht in 2008, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Locht?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lochtThe 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, “Locht”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.