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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : variant of Crawford.
  • English : variant of Crowfoot, a nickname for someone with splayed feet or some other deformity of the foot, from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + fōt ‘foot’. In Middle English crou-fot also denoted the buttercup, and it may be from this sense that the name arose, although the reason for its adoption is unclear.

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