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ash Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ (Old English æsc), hence a topographic name for someone living by an ash tree or a habitational name from any of the many places in southern and central England named with this word (Derbyshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Surrey, Shropshire, Somerset, and elsewhere).
  2. In New England, Ash is commonly found for French Dufresne, with the same meaning.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an acronym for Yiddish AltSHul (see Altschul) or AyznSHtot (see Eisenstadt).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ash Families in the US in 1920
Number of ash families
 143-284
 48-142		 1-47
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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