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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Austria) and Slovenian : Germanized form of the Slovenian habitational name Kranjec (also found in the forms Krajnc and Kranjc), denoting someone from Kranjska province (Latin name Carniola, German Krain), a historical name for the central part of medieval Slovenia. The name was also used as a term denoting a Slovenian.

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