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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree or an ash wood (see Esch 1).
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by an area where grain was grown or perhaps a status name for someone who owned such land (see Esch 2).

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