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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : from a diminutive of Krieg 2.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Yiddish krigl ‘small jug’. Compare Krug 1.

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