How common is the surname Loch?

2,481 people in the United States had the surname Loch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,444 Americans. It ranked 12,496th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Loch?

In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Loch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Loch getting more or less common?

More common. 2,368 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,481 in 2010, up 4.8%.

The surname Loch

A German place surname, carried by 2,481 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Loch is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

German origin

Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Loch, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hollow or valley. * From Scottish Gaelic loch (“loch, lake”), a Scottish topographic surname.

Loch is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,481 people named Loch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,444 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,368.

#12,496

rank among US surnames

2,481

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.8%

change since 2000 (was #12,088)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,488	Tuma	2,484	124,294
#12,491	Laplant	2,482	124,394
#12,496	Justiniano	2,481	124,444
#12,500	Howey	2,480	124,494
#12,504	Gum	2,479	124,544

Who is named Loch

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

88% of people named Loch identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Asian and Pacific Islander 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Loch

Loch has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Loch come from?: Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Loch, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hollow or valley. * From Scottish Gaelic loch (“loch, lake”), a Scottish topographic surname.
How common is the surname Loch?: 2,481 people in the United States had the surname Loch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,444 Americans. It ranked 12,496th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Loch?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Loch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
What type of surname is Loch?: Loch is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Loch getting more or less common?: More common. 2,368 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,481 in 2010, up 4.8%.