The kraak Surname

kraak Name Meaning and History

Dutch: from Middle Dutch crake, craek ‘ship’,‘galleon’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a ship builder or a mariner.
German: habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg.

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The kraak name in History

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Distribution of kraak Families in the US in 1920

Number of kraak families

4-6

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Kraak	Irma van Zeeland	3
Anna Marie Elizabeth Kraak	donna_welsch	8
Henry Kraak of New Orleans, Louisiana	KurtCulbertson	5
Adriaan Kraak	Irma van Zeeland	1
Kraak in the USA	Irma van Zeeland	1
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