Mach

Mach is the 6,649th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,879 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 61,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,879
Rank: 6,649th
How common: 1 in 61,300
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Czech

As a Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and dsb surname, from pet forms produced by truncation of personal names beginning with Ma- such as Matej, Martin, or Maciej, and the addition of the sla suffix -ch.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mach described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 32.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Mach

Ernst Mach (1838–1916)Austrian physicist
Alexander Mach (1902–1980)Slovak minister of interior of the Slovakia and publicist

People named Mach with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mach

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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.