The becher Surname
becher Name Meaning and History
- 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.
- 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’.
- Scandinavian: either the German name (see 1 and 2 above) or a variant spelling of Becker.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from Yiddish bekher ‘cup’.
- English: topographic name, a variant of Beech with the habitational suffix -er.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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