as a Last Name
- 12,506
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Krebs
Meaning & Origins
German and Swiss German: metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of crabs or shellfish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a crab, perhaps because they had a peculiar gait. The name was certainly standardized from older variants like Krevetes or Krebiss which reflect Middle Low German crevet ‘crab’, ‘shrimp’, as well as Middle High German krebez.
| 2,916th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,506
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Krebs per capita
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