Family name origins & meanings
- German : from a much altered pet form of the personal name Erasmus, a Latinized form of Greek erasmos ‘loved’ (see Rasmus).
- German : from a much altered pet form of the personal name Christian.
- German : from Middle High German kresse ‘gudgeon’, hence probably a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish in some way or a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman.
- German : unflattering nickname for a greedy person, from Old High German krāssig, grātag ‘greedy’.