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Origin Of The Surname Leach
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Meaning Of The Surname Leach
Doctor
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Interesting
Facts About
Leach
There are many different recorded spellings of this surname name including Leech and Leitch. It is thought that the name comes from the Old English ‘laece’ which meant a leech, therefore signifying a doctor or someone who applied leeches for medical reasons. However, it could also have been a topographical name, deriving from the ‘lacu’ which means water, and therefore given to someone who lived on the water’s edge. |
Leach Statistics
Leach is the number 384 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 24,494 share the surname Leach in the UK.
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