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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Middle High German krum ‘crooked’, ‘deformed’; it may have been applied in the literal sense to a hunchback or cripple, but equally it may have denoted someone who was ‘bent’ in the abstract sense, i.e. ‘dishonest’ or ‘false’.

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