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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for an argumentative person, from Middle High German, Middle Low German kriec, German Krieg ‘strife’, ‘conflict’, ‘squabble’ (Yiddish krig).
  • German : variant of Krug.

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