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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Normandy) : from Old French creve ‘crevice’, ‘fissure’, probably a topographic name for someone who lived on arid land.
  • A Crevier from Normandy, France, is documented in 1639 in Trois Rivières, Quebec.

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