# Tesch (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/tesch/  
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 | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,166 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,942 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 74,111 people |
| Change since 2000 | +18% (3,522 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /tɛʃ/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the German surname of Slavic origin, short form of several names starting with the element teš (“to comfort, console”), from Proto-Slavic *těšiti. Compare Tetzlaff, Tessmer.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Tesch 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) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Tesch in Australia.

## People named Tesch

- Liesl Tesch, Australian politician, wheelchair basketball player and sailor

## Similar surnames

Tews, Teague, Tsai, Tuck, Tice, Theis, Tse, Thach, Tighe, Tucci, Thies, Tague.

## 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.