Stïch
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stïch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Somalia it is the 98th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German stich, from Old High German stih, from Proto-West Germanic *stiki (“puncture, prick”).
- DEGermany≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 166K
- SOSomalia≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stich in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 3 more.
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)
- Middle High Germanstich(measured from records)
- Old High Germanstih(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*stiki“puncture“puncture, prick”(measured from records)
From Middle High German stich, from Old High German stih, from Proto-West Germanic *stiki (“puncture, prick”). Cognate with Dutch steek (“prick, stitch”), English stitch (“needlework”), Old English stician (“stick, stab, pierce, prick”).
Sources 2
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stïch 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 | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Stich | 104 |
| US United States | — | 2,001 | 1 in 166K | 2K | Stich | 237 |
| SO Somalia | #98 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Stich | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Stich | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Stich | 42 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 248 | 1 in 34K | 248 | Stich | 23 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 176 | 1 in 61K | 176 | — | — |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stïch mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle High German stich, from Old High German stih, from Proto-West Germanic *stiki (“puncture, prick”). Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Stïch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Stïch in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stich.
- How common is the name Stïch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,001 people named Stïch in 2010, about 1 in 166 thousand residents.
- How common is Stïch compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Stïch is the 98th most common surname of 1,614 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%AFchThe 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, “Stïch” — the 98th most common surname in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.