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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname for a hunchback, from Middle Dutch crom ‘crooked’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish krom ‘shop’, ‘store’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a retailer.

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