How common is the surname Tesch?

4,166 people in the United States had the surname Tesch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,111 Americans. It ranked 7,942nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tesch?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Tesch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Tesch?

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

Where is the surname Tesch most common?

Wikidata records people named Tesch in Australia.

How do you pronounce Tesch?

Tesch is /tɛʃ/, one syllable.

Is the surname Tesch getting more or less common?

More common. 3,522 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,166 in 2010, up 18%.

The surname Tesch

A surname, carried by 4,166 people in the United States.

Pronounced /tɛʃ/ 1 syllable Soundex T200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tesch is more common than 95.1% of them.

Origin

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.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,166 people named Tesch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,111 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,522.

#7,942

rank among US surnames

4,166

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+18.3%

change since 2000 (was #8,601)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,937	Riccio	4,169	74,057
#7,939	Rutland	4,168	74,075
#7,940	Waddle	4,167	74,093
#7,942	Wirtz	4,166	74,111
#7,944	Mele	4,165	74,129
#7,947	Czarnecki	4,164	74,146

Who is named Tesch

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

95% of people named Tesch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Teschs

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Liesl Tesch
Australian politician, wheelchair basketball player and sailor, born 1969

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tesch

Tews

Tesch has the Soundex code T200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T200.

Questions

Where does the surname Tesch come from?: 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.
How common is the surname Tesch?: 4,166 people in the United States had the surname Tesch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,111 Americans. It ranked 7,942nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tesch?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Tesch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Tesch?: Liesl Tesch, Australian politician, wheelchair basketball player and sailor.
Where is the surname Tesch most common?: Wikidata records people named Tesch in Australia.
How do you pronounce Tesch?: Tesch is /tɛʃ/, one syllable.
Is the surname Tesch getting more or less common?: More common. 3,522 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,166 in 2010, up 18%.