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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a producer of or dealer in pot barley, from the Bohemian loan word krupa ‘pot barley’ + the German agent suffix -ner.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Graupen (Krupka in Czech) in Bohemia.

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