Vlach Family History
Vlach Name Meaning
Czech and Slovak:: from Vlach an old ethnic name for an Italian or more generally a speaker of any Romance language. The word is cognate with Old High German walahisc ‘Latin-speaking’ or ‘foreign’ and with Old English wælisc ‘foreign’ modern English Welsh. See also Valach German Wallach and Greek Vlachos . from a pet form of any of various Slavic personal names beginning with Vla- for example Vladislav which is based on the element vlad ‘to rule’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022