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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : from bychan, a diminutive of bach ‘little’ (see Bach 4).
  • A Welsh family of this name was established from an early date in Great Rollright, Oxfordshire, England. The name was probably brought to North America from Oxfordshire rather than Wales.

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