Lech Family History
Lech Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Lech Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lech families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lech families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lech census records
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Lech Family Origin
Lech Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Lech
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Lech Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Lech census records
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Lech Civil War Service Records
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