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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a brusk person, from Middle High German krellen ‘to claw’.
  • German : variant of Kreul or Karl.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish krel ‘coral’.

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