Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : from Middle Dutch crans ‘wreath’, ‘garland’, ‘crown’; hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of wreaths and garlands, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a garland, or a nickname for someone whose hair was tonsured.
- German : nickname from Middle High German grans ‘beak’. Compare Schnabel.