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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the East Prussian dialect word Keicher ‘small cake’, ‘pastry’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastrycook.
  • German : from Middle High German kīchen ‘to gasp for breath’, hence a nickname for an asthmatic or someone perpetually out of breath. Compare Kaucher.
  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Kaichen in Hesse.

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