Oesch
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Oesch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Ösch.
- USUnited States1 in 613K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 9.9Kas Osch
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.9K
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 Oesch 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.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Osch, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Osch in NL Netherlands.
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)
Borrowed from German Ösch.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oesch 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #662 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Osch | 70 |
| CH Switzerland | #586 | 1,434 | 1 in 5.9K | 1.4K | Oesch | 58 |
| US United States | — | 543 | 1 in 613K | 712 | Oesch | 163 |
| FI Finland | — | 188 | 1 in 30K | 188 | Oesch | 10 |
| FR France | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 482K | 33 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 93 | 1 in 36K | 93 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #355 | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Oesch | 7 |
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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Johann Ignaz Oeschb. 1835CH(1835-1920)
- Carl Oeschb. 1875CH(1875-1954)
- Karl Lennart Oeschb. 1892FIFinnish general and war criminal (1892-1978)
- Sebastian Oeschb. 1893CHSwiss artist (1893–1920)
- Albert Oeschb. 1897CH(1897-1962)
- Albert Oeschb. 1907CHSwiss painter and sculptor (1907-1936)
- Hans Oeschb. 1926CHSwiss musicologist (1926-1992)
- Franz Oeschb. 1938CHSwiss pharmacologist
- Tom Oeschb. 1980USAmerican director
- Barbara Bartłomowicz-OeschPLPolish toxicologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.4K | #745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 712 | #34,306 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 543 | #40,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 215 | #81,700 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 188 | #7,838 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 93 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Oesch mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Ösch. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Oesch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Osch in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oesch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oesch is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 5.9 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oesch?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,434 people named Oesch in 2024, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Oesch compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Oesch is the 662nd most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oeschThe 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, “Oesch” — the 662nd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.