Family name origins & meanings
- Probably an Americanized spelling of eastern German (Saxony, Silesia, Bohemia) Dürich, a regional name from Thuringia (see Doering), or the Swiss German cognate Dürig.
- Perhaps an altered spelling of Irish Durack, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhraic, thought to be from Ó Dubhratha ‘descendant of Dubhratha’, a personal name meaning ‘black one of prosperity’.