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blech Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): generally a metonymic occupational name from Middle High German blech ‘sheet metal’; German Blech ‘tin’ or Yiddish blekh, denoting a worker in tin or some other metal.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blech Families in the US in 1920
Number of blech families
 5-7
 2-4
 1
 0
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