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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Taucha near Leipzig or from Tauche on the Spree river, derived from a Slavic place-name element, Tuch-.
  • South German : topographic name from dialect Dauch ‘wetland’, ‘swamp’.
  • Americanized spelling of Slovenian Tavčer, an old Slovenian dialect spelling of the German ethnic name Deutscher ‘German’.

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