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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Danish, Norwegian, and North German : from krage ‘collar’, either a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive collar. Collars were worn by wealthy people, and in Denmark at least this also seems to have been a nickname for a nobleman or a courtier.

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