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latch Name Meaning and History

  1. variant of Leach 2.
  2. topographic name from an Old English element læcc, lecc ‘boggy stream’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Lach Dennis or Lache in Cheshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of latch Families in the US in 1920
Number of latch families
 22-41
 8-21
 1-7
 0
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