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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place named Kreisau.
  • German : occupational name for a forest warden or a guard protecting crops from birds and thieves, from an agent derivative of kreisen ‘to circulate’, ‘to go round’.
  • German (in Tyrol) : habitational name for someone from St. Quirinus.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a derivative of Kreis.

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