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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Danish : occupational name for a soldier, from Middle Dutch criger, German Krieger ‘warrior’.
  • Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Polish spelling of German Krieger ‘soldier’.
  • Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Polish spelling of German Krueger ‘innkeeper’.

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