March Family History
March Name Meaning
English: habitational name from March (Cambridgeshire) or from any of numerous minor English placenames deriving from Middle English marche ‘boundary’ (partly from Old English mearc in the dative-case form mearce partly from Old French marche). Compare Mark Catalan: from the personal name March Catalan equivalent of Mark This surname is also found in southern France. German: topographic name from Middle Low German march Middle High German marc(h) ‘mark sign boundary’ or a habitational name from a place called with this word (Bavaria). Americanized form (translation into English) of German Märtz or Martz 1 Polish Marzec and Slovenian Marc all meaning ‘March’ or corresponding to a word with such meaning.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022