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The becher Surname

becher Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a maker of wooden vessels, a shortened form of Becherer, the loss of the final syllable having occurred in the 15th century.
  2. German: occupational name for someone who distilled or worked with pitch, for example in making vessels watertight, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bech, pech ‘pitch’.
  3. Scandinavian: either the German name (see 1 and 2 above) or a variant spelling of Becker.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from Yiddish bekher ‘cup’.
  5. English: topographic name, a variant of Beech with the habitational suffix -er.

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Distribution of becher Families in the US in 1920
Number of becher families
 80-157
 27-79
 1-26
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