Koch Family History
- Koch Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German koch, German Koch ‘cook’ (cognate with Latin coquus). The name in this sense is widespread throughout eastern and central Europe, and is also well established in Denmark. Czech and Slovak: from a pet form of any of several medieval personal names beginning with Ko-, for example Kochan, Kocián, Kojata, and Kosmas. Polish: nickname from kochac ‘to love’ (see Kochan).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,853,478 Historical Documents with Koch on Ancestry
- 1,593,991 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 246,056 Census and Voter Lists
- 109,820 Military Records
- 92,589 Immigration Records
- 811,022 Member Trees
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Number of Koch families
 45 - 87  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Koch families
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27 - 51 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Koch census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Koch census records
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