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krug Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of mugs and jugs, from Middle High German kruoc ‘jug’, ‘drinking vessel’; alternatively, mostly in southern and eastern Germany, a nickname for a heavy drinker.
  2. occupational nickname for a tavern keeper, from Krug ‘inn’, ‘tavern’, especially in northern Germany.

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Distribution of krug Families in the US in 1920
Number of krug families
 73-143
 25-72
 1-24
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