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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived on or worked newly cleared land, from an agent derivative of gereute, a late medieval form of Middle High German geriute (see Kreider).
  • German : variant of Kräuter (see Krauter).

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