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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of various place called Kreinitz, Krenitz, or Krensitz, so named from Middle High German greniz(e) ‘boundary’, ‘border’ (of Slavic origin), modern German Grenze.
  • German : variant of Kranz.

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