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What is the origin and meaning of the surnames Yencha and Streed? They are listed on ancestry.com as origin unidentified and there does not seem to be much information on these surnames anywhere else either.
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Yencha is an alteration of Slovak Jenča, a variant of Janča which is derived from Jan ‘John’. Streed is an alteration of Swedish Strid, from strid ‘combat, fighting’, the nickname of a soldier.
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