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The ruch Surname

ruch Name Meaning and History

  1. Swiss and South German: nickname for a greedy person, from Middle High German ruoch ‘eager’, ‘intent’.
  2. German: nickname for an unkempt or rough person, from Middle Low German ru(ch), Middle High German ruch ‘shaggy’, ‘rough’, ‘crude’, ‘hard’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ruch Families in the US in 1920
Number of ruch families
 130-257
 44-129		 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 84 - Messages: 248
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Fred/Frederick Ruch MBlocker5857 8
Ruch family (Lehigh Co. PA area) Lisa Ruch 3
Jacob Ruch naduahcap 1
Ruch WGFGER 5
My RUCH Family Tree waltruch 4
Ruch Geneology reruch 3
how we say it / in WI Benjamin Ruch 18
Ferdinand/Frederick and Augusta Ruch - IL & KS Peg Jones 1
Ruch families, Kansas, Missouri & Oklahoma DebbieFrantz25 0
obit for Agnes I. Ruch tigerlily =';'= 3
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