The lech Surname
lech Name Meaning and History
- Polish and Czech: from the personal name Lech, often chosen as a patriotic name among Poles. According to Slavic legend, three brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus, founded the nations of the Poles, Czechs, and Russians respectively. In Czech the term Lech denotes a Pole.
- North German: from a byname for a mean person, from Middle Low German lech ‘low’, ‘bad’, ‘mean’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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