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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Kranichbeere, ‘juniper’ or Kronsbeere ‘cranberry’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or collected the berries or as a topographic name for someone who lived in a place where they grew.

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