Show ContentsReiche Surname History

The prestigious surname Reiche comes from the ancient Jewish culture. This surname is a nickname surname, which comes from the broad category of hereditary surnames. In the Middle Ages, it became necessary to adopt a second name, or surname, because people were moving closer together in towns and cities, and it was becoming difficult to identify people with the same first names. The surname Reiche is a metronymic surname, which means that it comes from the given name of the mother of the bearer. The Hebrew name Rachel became Reichel, in German-Yiddish, and it is from this given name that the surname Reiche derives.


United States Reiche migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Reiche Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Reiche, aged 25, who arrived in Texas in 1845 aboard the ship "Joh. Dethardt" 1
  • Gottlieb Reiche, who settled in Texas with his family in 1846
  • Pauline Rosalie Reiche, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1853 1
  • Laura Reiche, aged 30, who landed in New York, NY in 1869 1


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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