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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Krüger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a maker or seller of stoneware mugs and jugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kruoc ‘jug’, ‘pitcher’, German Krug.
  • German (Krüger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Krüger ‘innkeeper’, an agent derivative of Krug ‘inn’, ‘tavern’, from Middle Low German krūch, krōch (probably originally a different word from 1, with which it has subsequently fallen together).

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