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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Kreische, Kreischa, or Kreischau in Saxony.
  • German : nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German krīschen ‘to shriek or cry’ or a metonymic occupational name for a torturer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kreischen ‘to make someone shriek (in pain)’.

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