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lish Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: unexplained. Probably a shortened form of northern Irish and Scottish McLeish.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lish Families in the US in 1920
Number of lish families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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