Bach
Bach is the 2,976th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,821 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 25,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 11,821
- Rank
- 2,976th
- How common
- 1 in 25,300
- Per 100,000
- 4.0
Where the name comes from
Origin German
From German Bach. The surname was brought to the Anglo-Saxon world by immigrants from other Germanic countries.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Bach described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)German composer
- Richard Bach (born 1936)American spiritual writer
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)German composer
- Thomas Bach (born 1953)German fencer, lawyer and sports official; 9th president of the International Olympic Committee since 2013
- Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)German composer
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784)German composer, organist, harpsichordist
- Barbara Bach (born 1946)American actress
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795)German musician and composer
People named Bach with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Bach
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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.