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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Translation of German Frucht, a nickname from Middle High German vrucht ‘fruit’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’, or possibly a Jewish ornamental name or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower, from German Frucht ‘fruit’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Fruth.
  • French : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of fruit, from fruit ‘fruit’ (Latin fructus).

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