Flach Family History
Flach Name Meaning
nickname (especially in the Silesian-Bohemian area)
from Czech Vlach ‘foreigner’, denoting specifically someone who
spoke a Romance language, in particular an Italian.topographic
name for someone living in flat terrain, from Middle Low German
vlak ‘flat’, or a nickname for a superficial or silly person,
from the same word in the sense ‘shallow’.metonymic occupational
name for a blacksmith, from Middle High German vlach ‘smooth’,
‘straight’. It is recorded as a surname in Bavaria around 1500.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Flach
Name Distribution of Flach Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Flach families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Flach Family Origin
Flach Emigration Information (US)
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Flach Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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