Crabb Family History
Crabb Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Middle English crabbe, Old
English crabba ‘crab’ (the crustacean), a nickname for someone
with a peculiar gait.English and Scottish: from Middle English
crabbe ‘crabapple (tree)’ (probably of Old Norse origin),
hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a crabapple
tree. It may also have been a nickname for a cantankerous person, a
sense which developed primarily from this word, with reference to the
sourness of the fruit, but may also have been influenced by the
awkward-seeming locomotion of the crustacean.Americanized
spelling of German, Dutch, and Danish Krabbe.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Crabb Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Crabb families
 58 - 114  20 - 57 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Crabb families
|
310 - 617 104 - 309 |
1 - 103 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crabb families
|
137 - 271 46 - 136 |
1 - 45 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Crabb Family Origin
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Crabb Family Occupations
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