Trach surname history?

Question:My father's mother's family side has the surname Trach. What's the country/region of origin and history of this surname?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My father's mother's family side has the surname Trach. What's the country/region of origin and history of this surname?

This name a more that one source according to ancestry.com.
Variant of South German Drach.
Americanized spelling of Jewish and Polish Tracz.
Vietnamese: unexplained.
The census shows a few immigrants from Bohemia and Austria.
Many on the census (especially in PA) were born here, as were their parents back into the early 1800s.

Drach means dragon. Perhaps someone who lived in a house decorated with dragons, or someone with a fiery temper was given this name.

To find out where your family came from, you will have to do some research, if you haven't already.

I have no idea but you could try a search on the internet.

Only 8 people with that name came through Ellis Island, and there isn't a single country of origin for them. But this might help you:

1. Alina Trach 1910
2. Alma Trach Frankfurt, Germany 1910 23
3. Karl Trach 1924 29
4. Lorke Trach Boresno, Russia 1908 22
5. Mary Trach Luam 1899 17
6. Max Trach NYC 1921 29
7. Peisach Trach Boresno, Russia 1908 0
8. Wilhelmune Trach Gnuind 1906 30

WWI Draft registrations also show quite a few people with that name who were from Galicia, which was the part of Poland under Austria's control until the end of WWI:

Name Birth Date Race Birthplace Registration Place
(City, County, State)
John Trach 20 Oct 1894 White Russia Chicago, Cook, IL

Frank Trach 13 May 1878 White Chicago, Cook, IL

Frank Sylvester Trach 25 Nov 1890 Caucasian (White) Minnesota;United States of America Not Stated, Cottonwood, MN

Morris Trach Oct 1882 White Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN

Mike Trach 25 Nov 1896 Galicia;Austria;Hungary Not Stated, St Louis, MN

Henry Trach 25 Jul 1880 White Bronx, Bronx, NY
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Joe Trach Apr 1895 Caucasian (White) Russia Manhattan, New York, NY

Gregory Trach 12 Feb 1888 Caucasian (White) Galicia;Austria Manhattan, New York, NY

John Henry Trach 6 Dec 1899 White Manhattan, New York, NY

Michal Trach 6 Jul 1888 White Galicia;Austria Manhattan, New York, NY

Jacob Trach 4 Sep 1887 Caucasian (White) Austria Syracuse, Onondaga, NY

Sini Trach 15 Feb 1873 White Syracuse, Onondaga, NY

Max Trach 3 Sep 1892 Caucasian (White) Germany Not Stated, Orange, NY

Pitro Trach 26 Jul 1885 White Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH

Wasyl Trach 27 Sep 1898 White Chester, Delaware, PA

Andrew Trach 19 Dec 1885 White Not Stated, Lackawanna, PA

Erwin Henry Trach 18 Jan 1885 White Allentown, Lehigh, PA

Maynard Elsworth Trach 21 Feb 1880 White Allentown, Lehigh, PA

Otto Allen Trach 24 Dec 1881 White Allentown, Lehigh, PA

William Stover Trach 7 Dec 1873 White Allentown, Lehigh, PA

Walter Dreher Trach 2 Oct 1894 Caucasian (White) Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Monroe, PA

Floyd Trach 16 Jul 1885 White Easton, Northampton, PA

Floyd Ezra Trach 23 Aug 1883 White Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Frank Henry Trach 21 May 1875 White Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Robert James Trach 24 Oct 1885 White Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Victor Trach 7 Nov 1892 Caucasian (White) Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Arthur Willis Trach 16 Feb 1892 White Pennsylvania Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Clinton L Trach 17 Jul 1886 Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Clinton L Trach 17 Jul 1886 Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Elbert Samuel Trach 9 Apr 1887 Caucasian (White) Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Elbert Samuel Trach 9 Apr 1887 Caucasian (White) Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Emery Calvin Trach 17 Nov 1877 White Not Stated, Northampton, PA

George Clarence Trach 18 Dec 1882 White Not Stated, Northampton, PA
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Howard Trach 10 May 1889 Caucasian (White) Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Milton Henry Trach 5 Jan 1881 White Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Raymond H Trach 4 Oct 1888 Caucasian (White) Pennsylvania;United States of America Not Stated, Northampton, PA

Karyilo Trach 15 Oct 1881 White Not Stated, Northampton, PA

John Matthew Trach 21 Mar 1875 White Not Stated, Marion, WV