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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an altered form of German Kron(n)owett, a habitational name from any of numerous places in Bavaria and Austria named Kranewitt, from Old High German kranawitu ‘juniper tree’, or possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a juniper, Middle High German kranewite. See also Kronenwetter.

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