Given name & surname · also German

Krebs

“crab”

Krebs is a surname from German (ultimately Danish). It is used in English and Slovak.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Krebs goes back to a word, meaning “crab.”

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Where it comes from

Krebs comes from German, and ultimately from Danish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Krebs’s family of names

In German usage, Krebs has a later derivative in CREPS.

Walk Krebs’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

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German

Krenn

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German

Krefft

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Danish

Krabbe

Krabbe is a surname from German, ultimately from Danish. It is used in English and German.

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German

Kerbs

Kerbs is a surname from German.

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German

Krenzer

Krenzer is a surname from German.

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German

Kriete

Kriete is a surname from German.

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German

Krienke

Krienke is a surname from German.

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Danish

Kragh

Kragh is a surname from Danish. It is used in Icelandic.

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Sibling ideas

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