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beach Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Middle English beche, Old English bece, a byform of bæce. Compare Bach 3.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from Middle English beche ‘beech tree’ (Old English bece).
  3. Perhaps also an Americanized form of German Bisch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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beach Family Facts

Distribution of beach Families in the US in 1920
Number of beach families
 298-594
 100-297
 1-99
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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