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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Krein or Greiner.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name kreyne, of German origin.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name for someone from Krajno in Poland or Krajna in Ukraine.

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