Pesch: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

In Wikidata, Pesch is listed as a German surname. Pesch is a last name with a clear footprint in official records.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Pesch, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Surname origin

The meaning of Pesch is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Pesch with 746 bearers, at rank 31,107. INSEE counts 173 people born in France with the Pesch surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1901–1910. Want more than a summary? See the Pesch family name pack.