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finch Name Meaning and History

English: nickname from Middle English finch ‘finch’ (Old English finc). In the Middle Ages this bird had a reputation for stupidity. It may perhaps also in part represent a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught finches and sold them as songsters or for the cooking pot. The surname is found in all parts of Britain but is most common in Lancashire. See also Fink.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of finch Families in the US in 1920
Number of finch families
 316-629
 106-315		 1-105
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