Loesche
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. variant of Loesch
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Loesche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 740Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 970Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
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 Loesche itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 306K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named Lösche, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, 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 Lösche in DE Germany, SE Sweden and Losche in MY Malaysia, CH Switzerland.
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)1. variant of Loesch. 2. occupational name for a fireman, from Middle High German leschen ‘to extinguish’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Loesche is found
(measured from records)Loesche 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Lösche | 68 |
| US United States | 283 | 1 in 1.2M | 299 | Loesche | 106 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 968K | — | Loesche | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 743K | — | Loesche | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 728K | — | Losche | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Loesche | 2 |
| SE Sweden | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 680K | — | Lösche | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 13as Lösche | 1 in 646K | 13 | Losche | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 695K | — | Loesche | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the dfa-band-5 register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Bruno Löscheb. 1898DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1898-1963)
- Dora Löscheb. 1906DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1906-1985)
- Kari Köster-Löscheb. 1946DEnot in their usual nameGerman non-fiction writer and writer
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Loesche come from?
- 1. variant of Loesch. 2. occupational name for a fireman, from Middle High German leschen ‘to extinguish’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Loesche mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. variant of Loesch.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Loesche?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Lösche in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Loesche?
- In the United States, the national register counted 283 people named Loesche in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million 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/loescheThe 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, “Loesche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.