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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Germanized or Americanized spelling of Kral.
  • Germanized form of Slovenian Kralj (see Kraly).
  • German : nickname for a lively person, from Low German krall ‘lively’, ‘cheerful’.
  • German : habitational name from a farmstead so named near Meppen, Westphalia.

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