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birch Name Meaning and History

English, German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from a Germanic word meaning ‘birch’ (Old English birce ‘birch’, Middle High German birche, Old Danish birk). In some cases, the German name may be derived from places named with this word, such as Birch in Aargau (see Birke). In Swedish, the name is in many instances ornamental.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the birch family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of birch Families in the US in 1920
Number of birch families
 80-158
 27-79		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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lillian barber/henry o niles rodella m niles johnston 1
Birch's from Devon itsdeebee 1
BIRCH expert kryten1sun 2
Clarence Birch Barb Kineke 3
Searching for Lars Bjerke/Birch sissyd47 0
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thelma lucille birch rslhamm 0
Florence Birch ,Massapequa, NY @@RedHd4Str8@aol.com 4
Birch link to Shropshire john_birch1 9
Lars Bjerke? sissyd47 0
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