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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Czech (Krám), Polish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a shopkeeper, from Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘tent’, ‘booth’ or the Slavic derivative kram ‘shop’, ‘store’. Compare Kramer.

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