Kritikos Family History
Kritikos Name Meaning
Greek: ethnic name for a Cretan someone from the island of Crete from an adjectival derivative of Kriti ‘Crete’. In the Ionian islands the ethnic name acquired the secondary meaning ‘good-for-nothing scrounger’ after the large number of refugees who came to the islands from Crete following its conquest by the Ottoman Turks.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022