# Couch (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/couch/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 26,615 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,323 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 11,600 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.8% (26,135 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /kuːt͡ʃ/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | Cooch, Cough, Couche |

## Etymology

* As a Welsh surname, from coch (“red”). * As an French surname, from Old French couch (“bed”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Couch in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Couch in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## People named Couch

- Tonia Couch, British diver
- John Nathaniel Couch, American mycologist (1896–1986)

## Similar surnames

Coco, Coca, Cock, Cook, Cox, Casey, Chase, Case, Cooke, Cash, Ceja, Cheek.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.