Becher Family History

German: occupational name for a maker of wooden vessels, a shortened form of Becherer, the loss of the final syllable having occurred in the 15th century. German: occupational name for someone who distilled or worked with pitch, for example in making vessels watertight, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bech, pech ‘pitch’.

Scandinavian: either of German origin (see 1 and 2 above) or a variant of Becker. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from Yiddish bekher ‘cup’.

English: variant of Beecher, a topographic name for a ‘dweller by the beech tree’, itself a variant of Beech with the agent suffix -er.