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The gerlach Surname

gerlach Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch: from the personal name Gerlach, composed of the elements ger, gar ‘spear’ + lach, a cognate of Old High German leich ‘sport’, ‘play’.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental adoption of the German name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The gerlach name in History

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Distribution of gerlach Families in the US in 1920
Number of gerlach families
 64-126
 22-63		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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