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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle Dutch croes(e), cruese ‘stone jar’, ‘drinking vessel’.
  • Dutch : nickname for someone with curly hair, from Middle Dutch croes ‘curly’, ‘crinkly’.

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