Loesch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic occupational name from Middle High German losch ‘fine leather’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫoʊʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loesch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 137K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 22Kas Lösch
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 38K
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 Loesch 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lösch in DE Germany, AT Austria and Losch in FI Finland.
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)
metonymic occupational name from Middle High German losch ‘fine leather’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loesch 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Loesch | 3 |
| DE Germany | #974 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Lösch | 106 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Loesch | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,428 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Loesch | 251 |
| BR Brazil | — | 575 | 1 in 368K | 575 | — | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Loesch | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Lösch | 24 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Losch | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Fernand Loeschb. 1900LULuxembourgish politician (1900-1984)
- Alfred Loeschb. 1902LULuxembourgish lawyer (1902-1982)
- Harrison Loeschb. 1916USAmerican politician (1916-1997)
- Heinrich von Loeschb. 1934DEGerman journalist
- Uwe Loeschb. 1943DEGerman graphic designer (born 1943)
- Margaret Loeschb. 1947USAmerican television producer and executive
- Heinz von Loeschb. 1959DEGerman university teacher
- Luc Loeschb. 1975LULuxembourgian basketball player (born 1975)
- Dana Loeschb. 1978USAmerican conservative political commentator (born 1978)
- Andrzej LoeschPLresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-8051-0099)
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,244 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,229 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 575 | #15,018 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Loesch mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name from Middle High German losch ‘fine leather’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Loesch?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫoʊʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Loesch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Loesch in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loesch.
- How common is the name Loesch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,428 people named Loesch in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
- How common is Loesch compared with other names?
- In Germany, Loesch is the 974th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Loesch?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loeschThe 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, “Loesch” — the 974th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.