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knecht Name Meaning and History

German and Swiss German: occupational name for a journeyman, from Middle High German kneht, Middle Low German knecht ‘knight’s assistant’, ‘lad’, ‘servant’, ‘hired hand’, ‘apprentice’, ‘helper’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of knecht Families in the US in 1920
Number of knecht families
 99-196
 34-98		 1-33
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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