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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Belorussian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Krupy in Poland, Krupiai or Kruopiai in Lithuania, or Krupka or Krupa in Belarus, all named with krupa ‘barley’.

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