Rentsch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic in -tsch(e) from Reinhold; 982 bearers
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Rentsch is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CHSwitzerland
- DEGermany
- AUAustralia
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)Patronymic in -tsch(e) from Reinhold; 982 bearers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rentsch is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Wohl patronymische Kurzform mit -tsch/-sch; evtl. zu Rufnamen mit ahd. rant 'Schild(buckel)'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Kurz-/Koseform zu Rein-: z. B. Reinhard, Reinhold, Reinmar, Reinher, Reinbald.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Zu Rufname Lorenz; Belege: 1518.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Johann Ernst Rentschb. 1650DEGerman painter
- Heinrich Rentschb. 1897DEjudge
- Paul Rentschb. 1898DEGerman dentist (1898–1944)
- Hans Ulrich Rentschb. 1917CHSwiss author
- Lothar Rentschb. 1924DEGerman graphic designer and painter (1924-2017)
- Ingrid Rentschb. 1928DEGerman actress (1928–2022)
- Günter Rentschb. 1935DEGerman politician
- Franz Rentschb. 1943CHSwiss rower
- Thomas Rentschb. 1954DEGerman philosopher (1954–2022)
- Florian Rentschb. 1975DEGerman politician
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.4K | #787 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 401 | #51,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 377 | #51,809 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 343 | #62,967 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #29,178 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 23 | #41,141 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,669 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,069 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #116,839 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Rentsch mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic in -tsch(e) from Reinhold; 982 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- In which country does Rentsch have the most bearers?
- Rentsch is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rentschThe 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
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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, “Rentsch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.