English: metonymic occupational name for a harvester of fruit,
vegetables, or corn, from Middle English cropp, a noun
derivative of cropt(en) ‘to pick’. Compare Cropper.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a
hill, Middle English cropp.
Americanized spelling of
German Kropp or of German and Dutch Krapp.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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