Släkthistoria för Becher
Becher Vad efternamn betyder
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 of German origin (see 1 and 2 above) or a variant of Becker. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from Yiddish bekher ‘cup’. English: variant of Beecher a topographic name for a ‘dweller by the beech tree’ itself a variant of Beech with the agent suffix -er.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
