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.