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fasnacht Name Meaning and History

South German and Swiss German: from Fastnacht ‘Shrovetide carnival’, ‘Shrove Tuesday’ (literally ‘fast eve’); probably, like Fasching, it was a nickname for a lively, exuberant person or someone born between Christmas and Lent, in particular on Shrove Tuesday.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fasnacht Families in the US in 1920
Number of fasnacht families
 49-95
 17-48		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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