The fleck Surname
fleck Name Meaning and History
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German
vlec(ke), German Fleck ‘patch’, ‘spot’ or Yiddish
flek, of varied application. Bahlow suggests that this may be a
metonymic occupational name for a user of patches in repairing shoes,
clothes, or utensils, or a habitational name from a place named with
this word. In some parts of Germany this was the term for a type of
round, flat loaf; the surname could therefore have arisen as a
metonymic occupational name for a baker. In some cases the Jewish name
was probably ornamental.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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