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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Křemen) and Slovak Kremeň : nickname for a hard man, from Czech křemen ‘quartz’, ‘flint’, of proverbial hardness.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or metonymic occupational name from Ukrainian kremin ‘pebble’, ‘flint’ (Russian kremen).

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