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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a market gardener or a herbalist, from Middle High German krūt ‘herb’, ‘plant’,‘cabbage’. It is also found in eastern Slovenia.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental or metonymic occupational name from German Kraut ‘herb’, ‘cabbage’.

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