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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of the places named Krimm or Krim, in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, former East Prussia, and Bavaria.
  • German : variant of Grimm.
  • German : nickname for a hunched or bent person, from Low German krimpen ‘to crimp or shrivel’.

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