Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name for someone from a place called Graicha, near Altenburg in Thuringia. The Middle German form Krech derives from Kraichen, the old spelling of Graichen.
- German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of jugs and pitchers or a nickname for a heavy drinker, from a variant (plural in form) of Krug.
- Czech : nickname from German Krähe ‘crow’.