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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern and eastern German (of Slavic origin) : variant of Bloch.
  • South German : nickname for a crude, clumsy, or short and fat individual, from Middle High German bloch ‘block’, ‘stocks’.
  • Polish : unflattering nickname from płochy ‘timid’ or ‘sluttish’.

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