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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places in North Yorkshire, one called Crakehall and the other Crakehill, both from Old Norse kráka ‘crow’ (or Old English craca ‘crake’) + Old English halh ‘recess’. This form of the surname is now rare in England.

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