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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Krämer), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a shopkeeper, peddler, or hawker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘trading post’, ‘tent’, ‘booth’.

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