The keicher Surname
keicher Name Meaning and History
- from the East Prussian dialect word Keicher ‘small cake’, ‘pastry’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastrycook.
- South German: from Middle High German kichen ‘to gasp for breath’, hence a nickname for an asthmatic or someone perpetually out of breath. Compare Kaucher.
- habitational name for someone from a place called Kaichen in Hesse.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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