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Crump

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly West Midlands) : nickname for a cripple or hunchback, from English cromp, crump ‘bent’, ‘crooked’, ‘stooping’ (from Old English crumb). Compare Croom.
  • Americanized spelling of German Krump, the variant Krumpp, or German and Dutch Kramp.

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