Stache
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Moustache, mustache (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/stæʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Stache is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 91K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 400K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Stache
- English:/stæʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Moustache, mustache.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Stache is found
(measured from records)Stache 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 | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Stache | 88 |
| US United States | — | 270 | 1 in 1.2M | 290 | Stache | 155 |
| BE Belgium | — | 129 | 1 in 91K | 129 | Stache | 11 |
| PL Poland | — | 59 | 1 in 649K | 34 | Stache | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 5 | Stache | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 23 | 1 in 444K | 23 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | Stache | 7 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Stache | 2 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #313 | — | — | — | Stache | 1 |
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 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Guido Stacheb. 1833ATAustrian paleontologist (1833–1921)
- Ernst Stacheb. 1849DEGerman painter (1849-1895)
- Erwin Stacheb. 1960DEGerman composer
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stache mean, and where does it come from?
- Moustache, mustache. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stache?
- In English /stæʃ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Stache?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Stache in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stache. After it come United States, Belgium, Poland and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Stache?
- In the United States, the national register counted 270 people named Stache in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Stache compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Stache is the 313th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stacheThe 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, “Stache” — the 313th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.