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beach Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Middle English beche, Old English bece, a byform of bæce. Compare Bach 3.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from Middle English beche ‘beech tree’ (Old English bece).
  3. Perhaps also an Americanized form of German Bisch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The beach name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the beach family name as far back in history as possible.

beach Family Facts

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Distribution of beach Families in the US in 1920
Number of beach families
 298-594
 100-297		 1-99
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 797 - Messages: 2016
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Richmond Virginia Beach Families mysweetbaby 2
Beach mysweetbaby 13
Beach Families in the Richmond Va area mysweetbaby 4
Thomas & Sara (Platt) Beach descendants outdoorxtreme1 19
Beach Family in Miss. and Louisiana Mary Lee Edwards 10
Francis L. Beach KS>OR joyce8555 1
BEACH Lucille S 1904-1965 t42Moore 0
BEACH Cynthia G and Edward J t42Moore 0
Arvid Kenneth Beach MN/TX bonitak 0
Beach graves in peril sellersgenie 3
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