Quiche
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Quiche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: quiche (pie made from eggs).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- ESSpain1 in 5.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
152 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
quiche (pie made from eggs)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quiche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 182 | Quiche | 35 |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | — |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Quiche | 8 |
152 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Quiche is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, S. American people
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, custard pie
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, quiche (pie made of eggs and cream)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, quiche (savoury pie)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 182 | #104,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 152 | #115,034 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #10,034 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Quiche mean, and where does it come from?
- quiche (pie made from eggs) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Quiche have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 152 people named Quiche, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quiche.
- Where is Quiche most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Quiche is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Quiche?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152 people named Quiche in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Quiche?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quicheThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Quiche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.