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kropp Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch: nickname for a person with a conspicuous crop due to goiter, from Middle High German kropf ‘goiter’, Middle Dutch crop ‘crop’, ‘gizzard’, ‘maw’.
  2. North German: from Middle Low German krup ‘small farm animals’; possibly a nickname for a small farmer.
  3. German: nickname for a person of short stature, a cripple, or a midget, from Middle Low German krop ‘torso’.
  4. German: habitational name from a place called Kropp in Schleswig.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kropp Families in the US in 1920
Number of kropp families
 34-65
 12-33		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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