German: nickname from Middle High German krum ‘crooked’,
‘deformed’; it may have been applied in the literal sense to a
hunchback or cripple, but equally it may have denoted someone who was
‘bent’ in the abstract sense, i.e. ‘dishonest’ or ‘false’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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