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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Norman) : from a derivative of Latin vacca ‘cow’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a cowherd or a nickname for a gentle person.
  • Samuel Veitch (1668–1732), born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of William and Mary Veitch, went to central America as a soldier and adventurer, moving to New York in 1699 after the expedition failed.

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