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krebs Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Swiss German: metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of crabs or shellfish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a crab, perhaps because they had a peculiar gait. The name was certainly standardized from older variants like Krevetes or Krebiss which reflect Middle Low German crevet ‘crab’, ‘shrimp’, as well as Middle High German krebez.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Krebs ‘crab’ (see 1).
  3. Danish: from krebs ‘crayfish’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of krebs Families in the US in 1920
Number of krebs families
 138-274
 47-137		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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