The Spicher surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,159 people carried this name — #22,246 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted. That is up 2% from 1,138 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
853 people named Spicher live in Switzerland.
They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 157 people named Spicher live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 125 people named Spicher.
6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Somme.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Spicher,
with a public archive behind them.
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Peter Spicher 1811–1874
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August Spicher 1914–1979 · geologist
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Stephan Spicher 1950– · painter
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Georges Spicher 1951–
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Ulrich Spicher 1958– · badminton player
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Spicher.
- Speroni 260 · U.S. census
- Speth 1,467 · U.S. census
- Spettel 148 · U.S. census
- Spetz 241 · U.S. census
- Speyer 590 · U.S. census
- Spica 303 · U.S. census
- Spiegel 6,338 · U.S. census
- Spieldenner 167 · U.S. census
- Spieler 467 · U.S. census
- Spielmann 456 · U.S. census
- Spies 3,508 · U.S. census
- Spiess 1,912 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Spicher is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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