Bloch

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Bloch [ blɔχ ] is a family name .

Frequency and distribution

The absolute distribution of the name Bloch in verwandt.ch

There are around 2170 people (with over 1000 phone book entries) in Switzerland with this name. Most of them can be found in Basel and the surrounding area.

In Germany there are about 2200 phone book entries with the name Bloch and thus almost 6000 people with this name. Most connections are registered in Berlin.

Name interpretation

  • Bernd Naumann means: Upper German for block, to mhd. Bloc (h) 'Holzklotz, Block, Bohle; a kind of trap '; mnd. block 'physically, mentally or emotionally rough people' or from Polish Bloch 'short for Blogoslaw', to blogi 'happy, comfortable', or from Polish wloch 'foreign origin, Italian'.
  • Viktor Schobinger writes: Polish wloch 'Stranger, Welscher, Italiener', <mhd. Walch / walhe 'Romane', or mhd. Bloc 'massive, square man'
  • Max Gottschald says:
    • 1st block: a) block. b) boulder. c) single property. d) Prison (Blöcker, Blocher, Blöcher = Stöcker, who puts the prisoners in the block). e) clumsy person.
    • 2. Jewish "Welscher", originally the name given to the Jews who immigrated to Poland from the west in the 14th century.
  • The FNDuden (2005) writes:
    • 1. Upper German or older Low German form of block <mhd. Bloc (h): a) a physically or mentally coarse person. b) the pad used to encircle the prisoners' feet. The name can denote the person concerned or the bailiff. c) a piece of land that has been ditched. d) some kind of trap.
    • 2. to Polish wloch 'Welscher, foreign origin'. This was used to describe the Jews who immigrated from the west to Poland in the late Middle Ages.
    • 3. Short form of Polish blogoslaw (<Polish blogi 'happy, comfortable').
  • In the Swiss Idiotikon Vol. 5, Sp. 9ff. stands: Significance of the coarse, uncouth person documented several times, e.g. B.
    • 1.b) From undere Blöchli si 'be a ruffian'
    • 1.d) A like-n-es Ploch 'a square, plump guy'
    • 2.b) misshapen, thick, squat, hulking person, v. a. Men. Gross booby.

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Related names

To the origin of the name from the meaning block (see below): Blockhaus, Blockmann; Blocher , Blochberger, Blochinger, Blochmann, Blöckel, Plocher, Plochmann, Blöchle, Plöchinger, Blöcklein, Plocke, Plockhorst, Plöckl, Plöckinger. (Gottschald 2006)

literature

  • FNDuden: Kohlheim, Rosa and Volker. Duden surnames, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2005.
  • Gottschald, Max. German onenology, Berlin / New York 6th edition 2006.
  • Id .: Swiss Idioticon. Dictionary of the Swiss German language. Collected at the event of the Antiquarian Society. Founded by F. Staub and L. Tobler. Frauenfeld: Huber 1881 ff.
  • Naumann, Horst. Family name book, Leipzig 1987.
  • Schobinger, Viktor. Surnames. Origin, distribution and meaning of the names of long-established Zurich families, Zurich 1994.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://tel.local.ch/de/q/ganze%20Schweiz/bloch.html?typeref=res&what=bloch&where=ganze+Schweiz&
  2. ↑ http://www.verwandt.ch/karten/absolut/bloch.html
  3. ↑ http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/bloch.html

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