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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Krautkrämer) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a seller of herbs, from Middle High German krūt ‘herb’ + krāmer ‘shopkeeper’, ‘trader’; German Kraut + Krämer.

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