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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Aachen.
  • German : nickname for a cantankerous person, from Low German kräkeln ‘to quarrel’.
  • Dutch : nickname for someone thought to resemble a cricket, from Middle Dutch crekel, criekel ‘cricket’.

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