Krech

Locally spelled Креч in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Krech is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States

  Also written Kréch

• Danish surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

  Also written Krëch

• Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Morocco

  Also written Ķŕêčh, Krêčh

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Krech is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, metonymic occupational name for a maker of jugs and pitchers or a nickname for a heavy drinker, from a variant (plural in form) of Krug.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In German, 1. see Krug. 2. Slavic PN 'weak'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, nickname from German Krdhe ‘crow’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Russian, var of Krekh.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Adalbert Krechb. 1852DEGerman ship captain (1852-1907)
• Theodor Krechb. 1877DEGerman architect
• Franz Krechb. 1889DEGerman army officer
• Margaret Alwyn Krechb. 1900US(1900-1982)
• David Krechb. 1909USUS experimental psychologist
• Günther Krechb. 1914DEGerman world war II Navy officer and U-boat commander
• Hans Krechb. 1914DEGerman university teacher (1914-1961)
• Hans Krechb. 1956DEGerman military historian and historian
• Volkhard Krechb. 1962DEGerman theologian
• Roman Krechb. 1989KZKazakhstani speed skater

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Krech come from?

habitational name for someone from a place called Graicha, near Altenburg in Thuringia. The Middle German form Krech derives from Kraichen, the old spelling of Graichen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

How do you pronounce Krech?

A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɛk/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Krech mean?

Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from a place called Graicha, near Altenburg in Thuringia.

In which country does Krech have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 721 people named Krech, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krech.

Where is Krech most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krech is densest in Poland — about 1 in 207 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Krech?

In the United States, the national register counted 721 people named Krech in 2010, about 1 in 461 thousand residents.