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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kräger (see Krager).
  • German (Kräcker) : nickname for a complainer, from Middle Low German kraken ‘to grumble’, ‘whine’.
  • German : nickname for a noise maker, from Middle High German krach ‘bang’, ‘noise’.

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