Family name origins & meanings
- German : probably an altered spelling of Krich, a dialect plural of Krug ‘pitcher’, ‘jug’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such vessels.
- German : habitational name from a place called Krickau.
- German : nickname for someone who walked with a crutch, from Krick ‘crutch’, dialect form of Kruücke.