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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German krimmen ‘to pinch’, ‘to flex (the claws)’, a term used to denote a hawk or falcon and hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bird of prey or a metonymic occupational name for a falconer.
  • Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine) : inflected form of Krim.

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