Family name origins & meanings
- German of uncertain origin. There are two possibilities : of uncertain origin. There are two possibilities: altered spelling of Kiesecker, which may have arisen as a nickname from Middle Low German kīf–sake ‘legal dispute’ or alternatively as a topographic name from Kies ‘gravel’, ‘coarse sand’ + Ecke ‘corner’ or -ecker, from Acker ‘field’.
- German of uncertain origin. There are two possibilities : variant of Giesecke.