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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Danish : nickname for someone with curly hair, a Low German variant of Kraus.
  • German : from Middle High German kruse ‘pitcher’, ‘ceramic drinking vessel’; a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of jugs or a nickname for a heavy drinker.

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