1,866 people were registered with the surname KOCH (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.
Surname KOCH
People with the surname KOCH in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 1,866 men and 2,061 women. Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE.
6 verified statements
male
1,866people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026
about 1 in 11,360
Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE (20.7%, 20 January 2026)
female
2,061people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026
about 1 in 10,461
Most registered in: ŚLĄSKIE (19.4%, 20 January 2026)
Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.
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How many people have this surname?
The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.
male
female
2,061 people were registered with the surname KOCH (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.
The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
02
How rare is this surname?
“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.
male
about 1 in 11,360
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#1,445 rank on the surname list
About 1 in 11,360 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname KOCH on 20 January 2026.
KOCH (male) ranked 1,445 among the surnames in this dataset.
female
about 1 in 10,461
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#1,304 rank on the surname list
About 1 in 10,461 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname KOCH on 20 January 2026.
KOCH (female) ranked 1,304 among the surnames in this dataset.
Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.
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Where is it most often registered?
The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.
male
Among the 1,522 people with the surname KOCH (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 20.7% were registered in ŚLĄSKIE.
Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.
Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
- 0%–5%
- 5%–10%
- 10%–15%
- 15%–20%
- 20%–25%
- not listed in the dataset — not zero
| Voivodeship | Share | Count |
|---|---|---|
| ŚLĄSKIE | 20.7% | 315 |
| ŁÓDZKIE | 17.4% | 265 |
| WIELKOPOLSKIE | 11.0% | 168 |
| DOLNOŚLĄSKIE | 10.4% | 158 |
| MAZOWIECKIE | 8.6% | 131 |
| OPOLSKIE | 6.4% | 97 |
| POMORSKIE | 4.7% | 71 |
| KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE | 4.1% | 62 |
| WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE | 3.6% | 55 |
| ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE | 2.9% | 44 |
| MAŁOPOLSKIE | 2.8% | 42 |
| LUBUSKIE | 2.5% | 38 |
| LUBELSKIE | 2.0% | 30 |
| PODLASKIE | 1.2% | 18 |
| PODKARPACKIE | 1.0% | 15 |
| ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE | 0.9% | 13 |
female
Among the 1,692 people with the surname KOCH (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 19.4% were registered in ŚLĄSKIE.
Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.
Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
- 0%–4%
- 4%–8%
- 8%–12%
- 12%–16%
- 16%–20%
- not listed in the dataset — not zero
| Voivodeship | Share | Count |
|---|---|---|
| ŚLĄSKIE | 19.4% | 329 |
| ŁÓDZKIE | 15.1% | 256 |
| DOLNOŚLĄSKIE | 10.9% | 185 |
| WIELKOPOLSKIE | 10.7% | 181 |
| MAZOWIECKIE | 10.2% | 173 |
| OPOLSKIE | 5.8% | 98 |
| POMORSKIE | 5.6% | 95 |
| LUBUSKIE | 3.7% | 63 |
| KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE | 3.6% | 61 |
| WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE | 3.1% | 53 |
| ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE | 2.9% | 49 |
| MAŁOPOLSKIE | 2.8% | 48 |
| LUBELSKIE | 2.3% | 39 |
| PODLASKIE | 1.4% | 24 |
| PODKARPACKIE | 1.2% | 20 |
| ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE | 1.1% | 18 |
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How did this count change between editions of the list?
The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.
male
The number of people with the surname KOCH (male) in the PESEL register changed from 1,892 on 30 June 2019 to 1,866 on 20 January 2026: −1.4%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.
| As of | Share of the list | People |
|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2019* | 1 in 10,497 | 1,892 |
| 22 January 2020 | 1 in 10,529 | 1,888 |
| 1 February 2021 | 1 in 10,592 | 1,887 |
| 27 January 2022 | 1 in 10,707 | 1,887 |
| 30 January 2023 | 1 in 11,056 | 1,882 |
| 19 January 2024 | 1 in 11,218 | 1,870 |
| 22 January 2025 | 1 in 11,275 | 1,871 |
| 20 January 2026 | 1 in 11,360 | 1,866 |
* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.
female
The number of people with the surname KOCH (female) in the PESEL register changed from 2,072 on 30 June 2019 to 2,061 on 20 January 2026: −0.5%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.
| As of | Share of the list | People |
|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2019* | 1 in 9,773 | 2,072 |
| 22 January 2020 | 1 in 9,693 | 2,086 |
| 2 February 2021 | 1 in 9,723 | 2,084 |
| 27 January 2022 | The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own. | |
| 30 January 2023 | 1 in 10,308 | 2,073 |
| 19 January 2024 | 1 in 10,342 | 2,077 |
| 22 January 2025 | 1 in 10,424 | 2,066 |
| 20 January 2026 | 1 in 10,461 | 2,061 |
* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.
05
What does this surname mean?
We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.
We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.
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Where does it appear in old print?
Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.
The word KOCH appears on 74,683 pages of works not under copyright and in 778 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 1 October 2026).
These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.
- before 1800176
- 1800–18495,222
- 1850–189931,305
- 1900–191813,617
- 1919–193917,393
- 1940 on6,832
Catalogue records by kind
- Periodicals216
- Books169
- Ephemera60
- Articles20
- E-books15
- Manuscripts12
Most common places of publication
- Warszawa30,571
- Kraków8,268
- Lwów6,854
- Poznań4,946
- Berlin1,521
- Leipzig1,395
Example pages in the public domain
„wysmażany Koch czokuladowy Koch migdałowy z cytrym Auflauf z kochu płuckowe 236 237”
„Koch XXXIX 586”
„Koch. XXXIX — wykreślić w. 18. Koch.”
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Which localities have this name?
The TERYT register, Poland's official list of localities, holds localities named the same as this surname. We show them with their gmina, powiat and voivodeship.
The TERYT register lists 1 locality named KOCH (as of 1 January 2026).
A shared name in the register. It does not say where the surname began, or that the surname and these places are connected.
- Kochvillagegmina Rusiec, powiat bełchatowski, ŁÓDZKIE voivodeship
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Who well known has this surname?
Wikidata, the open knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists people with this surname. Polish citizens come first, and among them those the most Wikipedia articles are written about.
Wikidata lists 1,130 people with the surname KOCH who have a Wikipedia article (as of 4 October 2026).
Sharing a surname does not mean being related. Wikidata is edited by volunteers and can be wrong.
- Magdalena Kochb. 1958Polish academic, slavicistWikipediaWikidata
- Jerzy Kochb. 1958Polish literary scholarWikipediaWikidata
- Władysław Koch1904–1944Polish painter (1904–1944)WikipediaWikidata
The other people (1,127) will be in the “Surname and family” report.
Sources on this page
- Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
- Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
- Official data GUS — TERYT · 1 January 2026 · api.stat.gov.pl
- Source Wikidata · CC0 · wikidata.org
How to read these figures
- Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
- Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
- The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
- The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
- Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
- Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
- The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
- Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
- A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
- Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
- The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
- Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.
- A shared name in the register. It does not say where the surname began, or that the surname and these places are connected.
- Whole localities only, as SIMC lists them, without parts of a locality, under the register's official name.
- The people from Wikidata share the surname; that does not mean they are related to each other or to anyone. No date of death in Wikidata does not mean a person is living.
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