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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch croes(e) ‘crock’, ‘beaker’; hence a metonymic occupational name for a potter or seller of pottery.
  • Dutch : nickname for someone with curly hair, from Middle Dutch croes ‘curly’.
  • Dutch : topographic name from Dutch kruis ‘cross’.

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