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Kreis Name Meaning
German: nickname for a noisy person, from Middle High German
kreiss, kreisch ‘cry’, ‘noise’.German: topographic
name for someone who lived by a circular feature, from Middle Low
German kreis (Middle High German kreiz)
‘circle’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Kreis ‘circle’,
‘circular field’, ‘border’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kreis Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kreis families
 20 - 38  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kreis families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kreis Family Origin
Kreis Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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Kreis Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kreis census records
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