English: occupational name for a seller of dairy products, from
an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French creme ‘cream’
(Late Latin crama, apparently of Gaulish origin).Scottish and northern Irish: occupational name for a peddler, a
cognate of German Krämer (see Kramer). Sir John
Skene, in his De verborum significatione (‘On the Meaning of
Words’, 1681), explains the term peddler as ‘ane mechand or
cremer, quha beris ane pack or creame upon his
back’.Americanized spelling of Krämer, Kramer,
or Kremer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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