Licht Family History
- Licht Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a chandler, from Middle High German lieht, Yiddish likht ‘candle’, ‘light’. In some instances the German name may have arisen as a nickname from the same word in the sense ‘light’, ‘shining’, and the Jewish name may have been ornamental. German: habitational name from places called Lichta or Lichte, both in Thuringia. Dutch: nickname for a slight man, from licht ‘light (in weight)’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 98,861 Historical Documents with Licht on Ancestry
- 48,252 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,542 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,790 Military Records
- 4,335 Immigration Records
- 27,942 Member Trees
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Number of Licht families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Licht census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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