Kirsch Family History
Kirsch Name Meaning
German: topographic name from Middle High German kirse
‘cherry (tree)’. It may also have been a metonymic occupational name
for a grower or seller of cherries or a nickname for a man with a
ruddy complexion.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German
Kirsche ‘cherry’, one of the many names taken from words for
trees and other features of the natural world. The surname is from
either the German or the northeastern or western Yiddish form of the
word. Compare Karsh.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kirsch Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kirsch families
 85 - 168  29 - 84 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kirsch families
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20 - 37 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kirsch families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kirsch Family Origin
Kirsch Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Kirsch
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Kirsch Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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