Feucht

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Feucht.

Proper noun[edit]

Feucht

  1. A market town and municipality of Bavaria, Germany.
  2. A surname from German.

Statistics[edit]

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Feucht is the 22809th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1123 individuals. Feucht is most common among White (97.24%) individuals.

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The name means "marshy place," from the adjective feucht (damp, marshy, wet). One of its former names was Ὑδρόπολις (Hudrópolis), of the same meaning.[1] The Dutch name is Voichtig.

Proper noun[edit]

Feucht n (proper noun, genitive Feuchts or (optionally with an article) Feucht)

  1. Feucht (a market town and municipality of Bavaria, Germany)

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Blackie, C. (1887). Geographical Etymology: A Dictionary of Place-names Giving Their Derivations. United Kingdom: John Murray, p. 79