Given name & surname
Letcher
“physician”
Letcher is a surname from Middle English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Letcher goes back to Middle English leche, meaning “physician.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Letcher through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 345
- 345 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1974. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 140 as a first name in 2020; 1,676 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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