Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kraus.
- German : from Middle High German krūse ‘pitcher’, ‘jug’; a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of jugs or a nickname for a heavy drinker.
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