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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a harvester of fruit, vegetables, or corn, from Middle English cropp, a noun derivative of cropt(en) ‘to pick’. Compare Cropper.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, Middle English cropp.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kropp or of German and Dutch Krapp.

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