Last name: FINCH
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Last name frequency
FINCH : This last name is indexed 210,393 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FINCH : 1: English: nickname from Middle English finch fink ‘finch’ (Old English finc) for a small lively cheerful person.2: Americanized form (translation into English) of German Jewish (Ashkenazic) Czech Slovenian and Croatian Fink ‘finch’ or of some of the corresponding Slavic surnames e.g. Czech (Moravian) Pěnka (see Penka).
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