English: unexplained; perhaps a variant of Craddick, itself a variant of Craddock. German: possibly an Americanized form of Gredig, a habitational name from a place named Greding in Bavaria, or a nickname for a greedy person, related to Old High German gratag ‘greedy’.1881 British census has 6; not in RW. Web suggests Swiss German; IGI: 3 uk, 2 german. EXG. pwh: Greding being in Bavaria, I changed "Swiss German" to "German.
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