Family name origins & meanings
- Czech (Kramář), Slovak (Kramár), Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a shopkeeper, Czech kramař, Ukrainian kramar, from kram ‘store’, from Old High German crām ‘tent’, ‘trading post’.
- Slovenian : occupational name for a peddler or hawker, from krama ‘cheap goods’, a word of German origin. See 1, and compare Kramer.