Bach Family History
- Bach Name Meaning
- German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Middle High German bach ‘stream’. This surname is established throughout central Europe and in Scandinavia, not just in Germany. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Bach ‘stream’, ‘creek’. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Middle English bache. Welsh: distinguishing epithet from Welsh bach ‘little’, ‘small’. Norwegian: Americanized spelling of the topographic name Bakk(e) ‘hillside’ (see Bakke). Polish, Czech, and Slovak: from the personal name Bach, a pet form of Bartomolaeus (Polish Bartlomiej, Czech Bartolomej, Slovak Bartolomej (see Bartholomew) or possibly in some cases of Baltazar or Sebastian).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 606,949 Historical Documents with Bach on Ancestry
- 287,096 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 61,732 Census and Voter Lists
- 32,186 Military Records
- 21,312 Immigration Records
- 204,623 Member Trees
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Number of Bach families
 26 - 49  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bach families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bach census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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