Family name origins & meanings
- German and Dutch : nickname for a person with a conspicuous crop due to goiter, from Middle High German kropf ‘goiter’, Middle Dutch crop ‘crop’, ‘gizzard’, ‘maw’.
- North German : from Middle Low German krūp ‘small farm animals’; possibly a nickname for a small farmer.
- German : nickname for a person of short stature, a cripple, or a midget, from Middle Low German krop ‘torso’.
- German : habitational name from a place called Kropp in Schleswig.