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crane Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname, most likely for a tall, thin man with long legs, from Middle English cran ‘crane’ (the bird), Old English cran, cron. The term included the heron until the introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century.
  2. Dutch: variant spelling of Krane.
  3. English translation of German Krahn or Kranich.

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Distribution of crane Families in the US in 1920
Number of crane families
 394-785
 132-393
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