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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle Low German krevet ‘crab’, ‘crayfish’ (see Krebs), a metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of these shellfish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a crab.
  • German : variant of Kraft.

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