Leach.
A surname from Old English.
Meaning & usage
A surname from Old English.
A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
A river in Gloucestershire, with a short stretch in Oxfordshire, England, which joins the Thames at Lechlade; in full, the River Leach.
Where this word comes from
Two main origins: * Occupational surname for a physician, from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”). * Topographic surname for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from Old English læcc (“boggy stream”) (related to Proto-Germanic *lekaną), or from several English placenames related to this (compare Leake).
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