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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Distribution of keicher Families in the US in 1920

Number of keicher families

8-14

3-7

1-2

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