Becher Family History
- Becher Name Meaning
- 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 the German name (see 1 and 2 above) or a variant spelling of Becker. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from Yiddish bekher ‘cup’. English: topographic name, a variant of Beech with the habitational suffix -er.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 183,303 Historical Documents with Becher on Ancestry
- 74,301 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 24,904 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,783 Military Records
- 22,742 Immigration Records
- 53,573 Member Trees
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Number of Becher families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Becher families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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