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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Middle English crease ‘fine’, ‘elegant’ (Old English crēas).
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kriese, Griese, Krieser, or Grieser, or of Swiss German Krüsi, a variant of Kraus.

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