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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Swabia) : topographic name for someone who lived in an area of marsh or moorland, from Swabian Fätsche ‘marsh’.
  • Swiss German : occupational nickname for a mountain farmer, from Alemannic fätsche ‘mountain hay’.

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