Rotch
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rotch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 856K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.6M
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 856K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rotch 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 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | listed | Rotch | 84 |
| KE Kenya | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Rotch | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Rotch | 12 |
| MA Morocco | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Rotch | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Rotch | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 856K | — | Rotch | 2 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Rotchb. 17041704-1784 , whaling merchant
- William Rotch Sr.b. 1734USwhaling merchant and New England Quaker 1734-1828
- William Rotch Jr.b. 1759USWhaling merchant and New England Quaker leader
- Eliza Ware Farrarb. 1791USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer
- Caroline Stockton Rotchb. 1800(1800-1856)
- Benjamin Smith Rotchb. 1817USAmerican painter (1817–1882)
- William Rotchb. 1844USengineer (1844-1925)
- Thomas Morgan Rotchb. 1849USAmerican pediatrician
- Abbott Lawrence Rotchb. 1861USAmerican meteorologist (1861–1912)
- Edith Rotchb. 1874USAmerican tennis player (1874–1969)
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 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- In which country does Rotch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 people named Rotch in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rotch.
- How common is the name Rotch?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 people in the United States have Rotch as their first surname, about 1 in 2.4 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rotchThe 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, “Rotch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.