Wach surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Wach surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 779 people carried this name — #28,751 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 344,800 people counted.

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In Poland’s population register

5,392 people named Wach have a registered home in Poland.

Of the 5,939 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Lublin.

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Where they live today

Lublin 675
Łódź 674
Masovian 642
Silesian 619
Holy Cross 524
Lower Silesian 511
Lesser Poland 459
Subcarpathian 271

PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 451 people named Wach.

20 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 31 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 20
Bas-Rhin 254
Haut-Rhin 40
Meurthe-et-Moselle 39
Paris 26
Pas-de-Calais 12
Moselle 10
Charente 6
Loire 4

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

77 people named Wach live in Switzerland.

They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Zurich 38
Aargau 11
Basel-Stadt 8
Lucerne 8
Basel-Landschaft 5
Vaud 4
Thurgau 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

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