What We Know About the Flesch Surname

Arms linked to Flasch and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Flesch

Your Flesch ancestor may well appear as Flasch in earlier records. Name scholars give the meaning as “Dweller at the sign of the flask or bottle, generally designating a tavern”.

Spelled with “e” instead of “a”, Flesch shows how the same name was heard and written differently. According to the 2010 US Census, the Flesch surname had 1,487 bearers. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 739 babies born in France were registered as Flesch, with the most births in 1941–1950.

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