Scottish: habitational name from a place in Roxburghshire (Borders)
called Ancrum, earlier Alncromb ‘bend in the river Ale’, from a
word related to Welsh crwm ‘bent’, ‘curved’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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