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belcher Name Meaning and History

  1. (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + chere ‘face’, ‘countenance’. Although it originally meant ‘face’, the word chere later came to mean also ‘demeanor’, ‘disposition’ (hence English cheer), and the nickname may thus also have denoted a person of pleasant, cheerful disposition. There has been some confusion with Bowser.
  2. nickname for someone given to belching. See Balch.

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

Distribution of belcher Families in the US in 1920
Number of belcher families
 132-261
 45-131		 1-44
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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