Family name origins & meanings
- German (Köcher) : from Middle High German kochaere ‘vessel’, ‘container (for transporting fish)’, ‘quiver’, hence a metonymic occupational name maker of these.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a cook, from an agent derivative of German kochen ‘to cook’. Compare Koch.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish kacher ‘drake’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish kochere ‘poker’, ‘fork’.