Kreps Family History
- Kreps Name Meaning
- Czech and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Krebs ‘crab’ or Yiddish kreps ‘crayfish’. As a Jewish name it is of ornamental origin; otherwise it was probably a nickname for someone with a peculiar gait.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 53,186 Historical Documents with Kreps on Ancestry
- 19,891 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,279 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,587 Military Records
- 1,043 Immigration Records
- 19,386 Member Trees
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Number of Kreps families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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