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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Kruszyński) : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Kruszyn, Kruszyna, or Kruszyny. These place names are probably from Polish dialect krusza ‘pear tree’ or from a derivative of kruszyć ‘to crumble’, ‘fragment’, or from a derivative of kruch ‘block’, ‘lump’.

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