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    The surname Isch

    A surname, carried by 612 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex I200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Isch is more common than 77.5% of them.

    Origin

    Borrowed from Alemannic German Isch, shortened from names containing the noun Iise (“iron”) (from Middle High German isern).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 612 people named Isch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 504,486 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 576.

    #36,525
    rank among US surnames
    612
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #36,630)

    Who is named Isch

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Isch identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Isch

    Isch has the Soundex code I200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Isch come from?
    Borrowed from Alemannic German Isch, shortened from names containing the noun Iise (“iron”) (from Middle High German isern).
    How common is the surname Isch?
    612 people in the United States had the surname Isch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 504,486 Americans. It ranked 36,525th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Isch?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Isch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Isch getting more or less common?
    More common. 576 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 612 in 2010, up 6.2%.