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.