Given name

Kryspus

“curly-haired”

Kryspus is a given name from Latin. It is used in Polish.

Original LatinCrispus

Meaning & origin

What it means

Kryspus goes back to Latin Crispus, meaning “curly-haired.”

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Where it comes from

Kryspus comes from Latin.

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How it developed

From Latin Crispus.

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Kryspus’s family of names

In Polish usage, Kryspus has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Crispo. In Polish usage, Kryspus has a conventional equivalent in the English form Crispus. In Polish usage, Kryspus has a conventional equivalent in Κρίσπος.

Walk Kryspus’s family in the name graph

KryspusCrispusCrispoΚρίσπος

The ring: across languages.

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Around the world

Kryspus has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.

Latin

Latinwhere Kryspus comes from · 1 name

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Across languages 3

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

See also 1

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Kryspus’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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