Message: "Lercher? Any Info?"

Lercher? Any Info?

by matt (guest)

10/23/2010, 12:50 PM

Does anyone know anything about this surname? All I know is that it's German, and quite recongnizable in my corner of AR because it's a big family. It's a Catholic family, and I remeber hearing something about most German Catholics being from Bavaria, but I don't know for sure. Help please, it's not on this database.

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- Marc (guest) +3

10/24/2010, 9:42 AM

Lercher probably designates somebody from a place such as Lerch, Lerchen, Lerche or Lercha in Germany. The name is found in various parts of the country as you can see at http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/lercher.html

- Jim Young (guest) +2

10/26/2010, 7:17 AM

The basis of this name is, apparently, Lärche, a larch tree. So a locality noted for its larches.

- Andy ;—) (guest) +1

10/29/2010, 1:29 AM

There are two more possible derivations of LERCHER:
1. From "Lerche", lark (the singing bird), for a person that loves to sing.
2. From place-names like Lerch (Bavaria, Tyrol), Lercha (near Meißen), Lerchen (Bavaria), or Lerche (North Rhine-Westphalia)

This is taken from: Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Das große Vornamenlexikon, Duden-Verlag Mannheim 2003

- LERCHER (guest)

1/22/2011, 7:39 AM

Thanks for the info!

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