Tracing the Bachrach Family Name

Families named Bachrach share a German surname with a long history. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “one who came from Bacharach, in Germany”.

• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Bachrach with 694 bearers, at rank 32,994. That puts it among the top 50,000 US surnames.
• Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

Arms associated with the name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Bachrach family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. Get the complete Bachrach report, with a museum-style coat of arms.