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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a disabled person, from a derivative of Middle Low German krupen ‘to creep’.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name formed with an element cognate with Gothic hrōtheigs ‘fame’, ‘victory’ ‘fame’. Compare Kraut, Kroth.

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