Reiche
surname · Latin script
Meaning: female equivalent of Reicher: rich woman or girl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Reiche is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
female equivalent of Reicher: rich woman or girl
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- ESSpain
- ARArgentina
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Reiche is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Aus dem Rufnamen Rich- (z. B. Richhard/Richherd/Richold); 2396 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In hrx, to reach
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)
- Gottfried Reicheb. 1667DEGerman trumpet player (1667-1734)
- Karl Friedrich Reicheb. 1860DEGerman botanist (1860–1929)
- Maria Reicheb. 1903DEPeruvian archaeologist, mathematician and technical translator
- Reimut Reicheb. 1941DEGerman sociologist
- Volker Reicheb. 1944DEGerman painter and author (b. 1944)
- Hans-Christian Reicheb. 1944DEGerman military officer
- Rüdiger Reicheb. 1955DEEast German rower
- Steffen Reicheb. 1960DEGerman politician
- Katherina Reicheb. 1973DEGerman politician
- Daniel Reicheb. 1988DEGerman footballer
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
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)
- 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 Reiche mean, and where does it come from?
- female equivalent of Reicher: rich woman or girl Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Reiche have the most bearers?
- Reiche is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reicheThe 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, “Reiche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.