Rechter
surname · Latin script
Meaning: comparative degree of recht
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɛktɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rechter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 48Kas רכטר
- RORomania≈1 in 176K
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 Rechter 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled רכטר in IL Israel, RO Romania, LV Latvia.
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)
comparative degree of recht
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rechter 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 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Rechter | 48 |
| IL Israel | 180as רכטר | 1 in 48K | 180 | רכטר | 28 |
| US United States | 122 | 1 in 2.7M | 147 | Rechter | 133 |
| RO Romania | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | רכטר | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 375K | — | Rechter | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Rechter | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 23 | 1 in 255K | 23 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | רכטר | 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 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); 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)
Rechter is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, judge
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)
- Michael Rechterb. 1892UAHolocaust victim (born 1892)
- Yaakov Rechterb. 1924ILIsraeli architect (1924-2001)
- Michal Lewittb. 1950ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli artist
- Yoni Rechterb. 1951ILIsraeli musician
- Dafna Rechterb. 1965ILIsraeli actress
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 147 | #123,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23 | #20,547 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rechter mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative degree of recht Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rechter?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɛktɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Rechter?
- In the etymology graph, Richter is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rechter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 281 people named Rechter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rechter.
- How common is the name Rechter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 122 people named Rechter in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Rechter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rechterThe 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, “Rechter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.