Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a small malformed individual, from Middle High German krapfe ‘hook’. In southern Germany the word was also applied to a type of crescent-shaped pastry, and the surname may thus also have been a metonymic occupational name for a baker.

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe