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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname for someone with long curly hair, from Middle Dutch crook ‘curly’.
  • Swedish (also found in Finland) : variant of Krok.
  • Respelling of Polish and Ashkenazic Jewish Kruk.

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