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The kraut Surname

kraut Name Meaning and History

  1. German: metonymic occupational name for a market gardener or a herbalist, from Middle High German krut ‘herb’, ‘plant’,‘cabbage’. It is also found in eastern Slovenia.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental or metonymic occupational name from German Kraut ‘herb’, ‘cabbage’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kraut name in History

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Distribution of kraut Families in the US in 1920
Number of kraut families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Kraut spelled Krautz BettyFelton96 1
john henry kraut glinkin1 0
Simon Kraujutaitis Kraut Family Lithuania sharinlpn 0
Kraut WGF 0
Johann Kraut in N.Y., 1710 BasketLady420 0
Josef Kraut born Jacob Kraut in 1920 Psycho2537 0
family tree Ruth 16
Sigmund and Rosy(Bendix) Kraut Ken Kraut 0
Alfred Kraut in Raboldshausen (Hessen), 1914 - 2004 WGF 0
Krautwurm family in Pittsburgh Alan Moore 1
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