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The kocher Surname

kocher Name Meaning and History

  1. German (Köcher): from Middle High German kochaere ‘vessel’, ‘container (for transporting fish)’, ‘quiver’, hence a metonymic occupational name maker of these.
  2. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cook, from an agent derivative of German kochen ‘to cook’. Compare Koch.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from Yiddish kacher ‘drake’.
  4. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Yiddish kochere ‘poker’, ‘fork’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kocher Families in the US in 1920
Number of kocher families
 130-258
 44-129		 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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