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10/16/2023, 6:49 AM Felie
11/4/2020, 9:04 AM noisynora

Name Drescher
Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage Yiddish, German
Other Forms FormsDressler, Dreher, Dresher, Kreischer, Mescher, Brecher, Loescher
Edit Status Status2a. listed usages are verified

Meaning & History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a thresher, German Drescher, Yiddish dresher, agent derivatives of Middle High German dreschen, Yiddish dresh(e)n 'to thresh'.

In some instances, it was a local surname, derived from a place named Dreshcer in the region of Thuringia.
Added 11/4/2020 by noisynora