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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for someone who gathered or sold chalk, from Middle High German krīde, German Kreide ‘chalk’ + the agent suffix -ler.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Kreidel in Silesia.
  • South German : variant of Kreuter.

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