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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (also Tüch) : metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German tuch ‘stuff’, ‘tack’, ‘clothes’.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a cloth merchant, from Middle High German tuoch, German Tuch, Yiddish tukh ‘cloth’, ‘linen’.

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