Given name & surname
Kasch
“resembling a blackbird”
Kasch is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “resembling a blackbird.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “resembling a blackbird.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
From Middle Low German karsch (“merry, lively”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ger- (“to awake”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kasch through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 199
- 199 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,308 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −57%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,308 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 742 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kasch’s family of names
Kasch has a related form in Kass. Kasch has a related form in Kas. Kasch has a related form in Kasche.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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