The Walch surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,986 people carried this name — #14,902 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 149,300 people counted. That is up 2% from 1,942 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 585 people named Walch.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 32 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
194 people named Walch live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 the Nordic population registers
26 people named Walch is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Walch,
with a public archive behind them.
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Andreas Walch 1530–1620 · jurist -
Johann Georg Walch 1693–1775 · writer -
Sebastian Walch 1721–1788 · merchant -
Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch 1725–1778 · naturalist -
Martin Walch 1520–1575 · mintmaster
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Hans Walch 1540–1593 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Walch.
- Wahl 13,253 · U.S. census
- Waibel 1,414 · U.S. census
- Wajda 940 · U.S. census
- Walas 349 · U.S. census
- Walaszek 273 · U.S. census
- Walbert 762 · U.S. census
- Walck 1,178 · U.S. census
- Walcker 207 · U.S. census
- Walczak 3,437 · U.S. census
- Wald 4,057 · U.S. census
- Walder 1,380 · U.S. census
- Waldmann 655 · U.S. census
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