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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (de Kraker) : nickname for a noisy person, from kraken ‘to make noise’.
  • Dutch (de Kraker) : Debrabandere also suggests that it may be an occupational name for a hangman, from a derivative of Middle Dutch craghe ‘neck’.

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