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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a pastry cook, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kuoche ‘cake’, ‘pastry’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Kuchen (Geislingen-Steig) in Württemberg.
  • German : Germanized variant of Slavic Kuchar ‘cook’.
  • German : (Kücher): of uncertain origin.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kutscher.

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