Family name origins & meanings
- North German : variant of Krumreihn, from Middle Low German krum ‘bent’, ‘crooked’ + rein ‘ridge’, ‘margin of a field’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a bend in the bank or edge of a field or by a field with a crooked boundary.
- German : from an old personal name, from Old High German hruom ‘fame’.