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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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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 138 - Messages: 403
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Kerry Fleck LoriMartin57 2
FLECK in PENNSYLVANIA Marlynn O'Keefe 35
Janet Fleck Smith lanastl 0
Kerry Fleck LoriMartin57 0
Kerry Fleck LoriMartin57 0
James LeRoy Fleck b 1927 Blairsville, PA Karen 3
Anton Fleck and Barbara Saffert Obituaries marpher19 0
James FLECK, Newcastle area Stephen Faifai 12
John Fleck of Tiffin, Ohio in 1891 BasketLady420 0
Fleck WGF 1
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