Dutch Family History
Dutch Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Deutsch . English: ethnic name from Middle English Duch ‘Dutch German’ a term used in particular to denote the many immigrant weavers who came to England from Flanders and the Netherlands during the 14th century. The modern distinction between Dutch and German did not become established in English until the 17th century; thus the Middle English term duche denoted a speaker of High German Low German or Dutch indiscriminately. A more widely used term in Middle English for a speaker of German or Dutch was alemaun(d) or alemain; see Allman .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022