Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized spelling of a Swiss and southern German family name Hantsche, Hansche, or Hentsche, a metonymic occupational name for a glovemaker, from any of the variants Hansche, Hantsche, Hentsche, contracted forms of Handschuh ‘glove’, due to the loss of stress in the second syllable See Handschuh.
- Jacob Hanchey was a Swiss-German immigrant to SC from the Palatinate, Germany, in the 1740s.