Last name: KRAFT
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KRAFT : This last name is indexed 206,570 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KRAFT : German (also Kräft) Danish Swedish and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a strong man from Old High German kraft German Kraft ‘strength power’. The Swedish name probably originated as a soldier's name. In part the German and Danish names possibly also derive from a late survival of the same word used as a byname Old High German Chraft(o) Old Norse Kraptr. See also Craft and Croft.
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