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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : generally a metonymic occupational name from Middle High German blech ‘sheet metal’; German Blech ‘tin’ or Yiddish blekh, denoting a worker in tin or some other metal.

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