Explore the Family Name Loescher

The meaning of Loescher

German (Löscher): 1. occupational name for a fireman, from Middle High German leschen ‘to extinguish’. 2. variant of Loesch. 3. variant of Lescher or a derivative of Loesche. Compare Lusher. Some characteristic forenames: German Wolfgang, Eberhard, Friedhelm, Gottfried, Kurt.

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How common is the last name Loescher in the United States?

According to the Popularity data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the surname Loescher saw a slight decrease in rank between 2000 and 2010, moving from 30,161st to 30,630th. This represents a change of -1.55 percent. However, the count of individuals with this surname increased from 733 to 761 during the same period, which is an increase of 3.82 percent. Despite the increase in count, the proportion of people with the surname Loescher per 100,000 decreased by -3.7 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#30,161	#30,630	-1.55%
Count	733	761	3.82%
Proportion per 100k	0.27	0.26	-3.7%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Loescher

In terms of Ethnicity based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the majority of individuals with the surname Loescher identified as White, although the percentage decreased slightly from 96.04 in 2000 to 92.25 in 2010. Those identifying as having two or more races also decreased from 1.23 to 1.05. Meanwhile, the Hispanic population within this surname increased significantly by 322.02 percent, rising from 1.09 to 4.60. Over the decade, there was a small increase of 8.26 percent of those identifying as American Indian and Alaskan Native. No changes were observed for the Asian/Pacific Islander and Black categories.

	2000	2010	Change
White	96.04%	92.25%	-3.95%
Hispanic	1.09%	4.6%	322.02%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	1.09%	1.18%	8.26%
Two or More Races	1.23%	1.05%	-14.63%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%