The leach Surname
leach Name Meaning and History
- occupational name for a physician, Old English l?ce, from the medieval medical practice of ‘bleeding’, often by applying leeches to the sick person.
- topographic name for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from an Old English læcc, or a habitational name from Eastleach or Northleach in Gloucestershire, named with the same Old English element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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