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kramp Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle Low German krampe ‘hook’, ‘staple’; either a nickname for someone with a hooked nose or a hunched back or a metonymic occupational name for a locksmith.
  2. German: variant of Krampe 2.
  3. Dutch: according to Debrabandere, possibly a nickname for someone who suffers from cramps, from Middle Dutch crampe ‘cramp’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kramp Families in the US in 1920
Number of kramp families
 26-50
 9-25		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 9 - Messages: 28
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John Kramp, Clearfield Co, PA from 1881 rckramp 1
looking for daughter of helen kramp farrahjswilliams 1
Franz August Kramp LauraKCampbell 0
Wilber Kramp Sue Bromley 10
ANYBODY KNOW WHO J,J, KRAMP IS DURI WEITZEL 1
August and Caroline Kramp, Germany the5organs 1
Kramp family in Sauk Co. WI JudithAN 4
Kramp,Caroline Chiarelott 1
Anna Barbara Kramp Smith Gladys Smith 0
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