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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from a southern diminutive of Middle High German bach ‘stream’ + the suffix -(l)er denoting an inhabitant.
  • German : dissimilated form of Becherer.
  • German : variant of Becher 2.

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