Bach

From German Bach. The surname was brought to the Anglo-Saxon world by immigrants from other Germanic countries. Doublet of Beach.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːx/, /bɑːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːx, -ɑːk

Bach

1. A surname from German.
2. (music) Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.

• BACH motif
• Bach flower remedy
• Bach flower therapy
• Bach trumpet

Borrowed from Vietnamese Bạch. Doublet of Bai.

Bach

1. A surname from Vietnamese.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bach is the 2,986^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11,999 individuals. Bach is most common among White (84.82%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.70%) individuals.

• BHCA

• IPA^(key): [ˈbax]

Bach m anim (female equivalent Bachová)

1. a male surname

• “Bach”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

From German Bach, also as a Germanisation/Germanization of the Danish surname Bak (“hill”).

Bach

1. a surname of Danish-speakers
2. (music) Bach

From Middle High German bach m or f, from Old High German bah, from Proto-West Germanic *baki. Cognate with Dutch beek, English beach and beck.

The Middle High German gender was chiefly masculine in Upper German, chiefly feminine in Central German. This is one of the rarer cases in which northern gender usage did not establish itself; perhaps because the masculine agrees with the semantically related Fluss and Strom.

• IPA^(key): /bax/, [baχ], (southern also) [b̥ɑx]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ax

Bach m (strong, genitive Baches or Bachs, plural Bäche, diminutive Bächlein n or Bächelchen n) or
(obsolete) Bach f (genitive Bach, plural Bäche)

1. brook, stream

   Der Fluss speist sich aus vielen Bächen.

   The river is fed by many brooks.

Bach n (proper noun, genitive Bachs or (optionally with an article) Bach)

1. any of a great number of locations, including
   1. a municipality of Tyrol, Austria

• Bacher

Bach m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Bachs or (with an article) Bach, plural Bachs or Bach)

1. a topographic surname, notably borne by Johann Sebastian Bach (German composer)

• “Bach”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Bach, Wasserlauf” in Duden online
• “Bach, Komponist” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒxː]
• Hyphenation: Bach
• Rhymes: -ɒxː

Bach

1. (music) Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer

• bachi

The plural is inherited from Middle Low German bēke, from Old Saxon beki, from Proto-West Germanic *baki (“brook”). Cognate with Dutch beek, German Bach, English beach, Swedish bäck.

The singular may be inherited from the Middle Low German variant bach if this form had /x/, it then being a borrowing from Middle High German bach. If, however, Middle Low German bach were a spelling for *bak, inherited from a hypothetical Old Saxon *bak, the Plautdietsch form must be a borrowing from Modern German Bach.

• IPA^(key): [baːχ]

Bach m (plural Bäakja)

1. stream, creek, brook

• IPA^(key): /ˈbax/
• Rhymes: -ax
• Syllabification: Bach

Bach m pers

1. a male surname

Bach f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Bach”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030

From German Bach.

Bach m

1. a surname from German
2. (music) Bach (German composer)