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Kreutzer Surname Meaning

German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross set up by the roadside or in a marketplace from Middle High German kriuz(e) ‘cross’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

German: habitational name for someone from a place called Krögis (recorded as Creuz in 1186) or from some other place similarly named.

German: in some cases possibly from Middle High German kriuzære kriuzer a term denoting a crusader or Teutonic Knight an allusion to the symbol of the cross worn on the tunic by such knights.

German: possibly also a metonymic occupational name for a coiner from the same word denoting a small coin marked with the symbol of a cross (in full kriuzerpfenninc).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from Kreutzer the name of the coin (see 4 above).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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Between 1949 and 2004, in the United States, Kreutzer life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1949, and highest in 2004. The average life expectancy for Kreutzer in 1949 was 32, and 82 in 2004.

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