Reusch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from < SiedlungsN Reusch (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern); related to the place-name cluster Reusch/Reisch
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reusch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 83K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 168K
- DKDenmark1 in 279K
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
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
997 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from < SiedlungsN Reusch (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern); related to the place-name cluster Reusch/Reisch.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reusch 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 | 997 | 1 in 334K | 1.1K | Reusch | 121 |
| BR Brazil | 93 | 1 in 2.3M | 93 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 66 | 1 in 83K | 66 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 50 | 1 in 168K | 50 | Reusch | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | Reusch | 6 |
997 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Reusch 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, Toponymic surname, derived from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; bearer count 1961+109.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname, from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Franz Heinrich Reuschb. 1823DEGerman Old Catholic church historian (1823-1900)
- Hugo Reuschb. 1833DEGerman bank director and politician (1833-1902)
- Friedrich Reuschb. 1843DEGerman sculptor (1843–1906)
- Hans Henrik Reuschb. 1852NONorwegian geologist, geomorphologist and educator (1852-1922)
- Helga Marie Ring Reuschb. 1865NONorwegian artist (1865–1944)
- Michael Reuschb. 1914CHgymnast (1914-1989)
- Helga Reuschb. 1916DEGerman classical archaeologist (1916–1978)
- Erich Reuschb. 1925DEGerman sculptor and architect
- Kina Reuschb. 1940CACanadian; artist (1940–1988)
- Roman Reuschb. 1954DEGerman politician (AfD)
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 997 | #24,934 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 93 | #66,867 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #21,458 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #22,666 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #58,999 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Reusch mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from < SiedlungsN Reusch (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern); related to the place-name cluster Reusch/Reisch. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Reusch have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 997 people named Reusch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reusch.
- Where is Reusch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reusch is densest in Norway — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Reusch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 997 people named Reusch in 2010, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reuschThe 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, “Reusch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.