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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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Distribution of fleck Families in the US in 1920
Number of fleck families
 147-292
 50-146
 1-49
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