Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name for someone from Taucha near Leipzig or from Tauche on the Spree river, derived from a Slavic place-name element, Tuch-.
- South German : topographic name from dialect Dauch ‘wetland’, ‘swamp’.
- Americanized spelling of Slovenian Tavčer, an old Slovenian dialect spelling of the German ethnic name Deutscher ‘German’.