How to pronounce Leshe?

laish or lesh...in french its a more nasally long a sound or in modern american it is a short e sound. either is ok. it is a french creole name from lorraine france..it predates the latinized era of france and is germanic in origin..related names of louisiana are leche and laiche . all come from antoine leche, the progenitor of the leche-laiche-leshe families of louisiana.

last name

louisiana creole french(lorraine, france)

leche and laiche

varies from the lorrainian

the names of leshe-leche-laiche in louisiana came from the progenitor of the leche-laiche-leshe families of louisiana, antoine leche, who settled louisiana with his wife and 3 sons in 1759 in st. john the baprist parrish. antoine leche came to louisiana from metz, lorraine france. he was a french national mostly of germanic heritage more than likely. the names leche-laiche-leshe possibly come from the name or word lesche which is old french of germanic or frankish dialect...possibly meaning "sedge", a plant that grows in marshy areas...the leche family came from metz on the moselle river a tributary of the rhine, therefore the possibility of the origins exist in the relationship to where they lived. no family historian or outside source has developed a definitive origin of the name.