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kirsch Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic name from Middle High German kirse ‘cherry (tree)’. It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cherries or a nickname for a man with a ruddy complexion.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Kirsche ‘cherry’, one of the many names taken from words for trees and other features of the natural world. The surname is from either the German or the northeastern or western Yiddish form of the word. Compare Karsh.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kirsch family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kirsch Families in the US in 1920
Number of kirsch families
 85-168
 29-84		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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