Given name & surname · also Dutch

Kroes

“drinking vessel; curly-haired”

Kroes is a surname from Dutch, ultimately from German.

Original GermanKruse

Meaning & origin

What it means

Kroes goes back to a word meaning “drinking vessel; curly-haired.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Kroes comes from Dutch, and ultimately from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kroes’s family of names

In German usage, Kroes as a surname has a related form in KRUSE.

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KroesKruse

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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Sibling ideas

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