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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Krebs ‘crab’ or Yiddish kreps ‘crayfish’. As a Jewish name it is of ornamental origin; otherwise it was probably a nickname for someone with a peculiar gait.

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