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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of South German Kreit(h), a topographic name from Middle High German geriute ‘land cleared for farming’, or of North German Kreite, a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Middle Low German kreit ‘strife’.

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