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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Ferg.
  • Americanized form of German Förtsch (see Foertsch).
  • Americanized form of German Förch, a habitational name from a place so named, from Old High German word for(a)ha ‘fir tree’. There are several such places in southern Germany.

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