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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from krachen ‘to make a loud noise’, ‘to explode’, hence a nickname for noisy person or a trouble maker.
  • German : southern nickname for a feeble person, from Middle High German krach ‘crack’, ‘weakness’.

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