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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name from Middle High German tīch ‘dike’, ‘dam’, or ‘(fish )pond’, German Teich ‘pond’. In some cases the Jewish surname was topographic, from Yiddish taykh ‘river’; otherwise it was ornamental.

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