Browse Submitted Surnames

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the meaning contains the keyword crab.
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Alimasag Filipino, Cebuano
Means "flower crab" in Cebuano.
Crabb English, Scottish
From Old English crabba "crab (crustacean)", a nickname for someone with a peculiar gait. Could also be from the sense of "crabapple (tree)", from Middle English crabbe "crabapple, wild apple", hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a crabapple tree, or a nickname for a cantankerous person, with reference to the sourness of the fruit.
Kanie Japanese
From Japanese 蟹 (kani) meaning "crab" and 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet".
Krabbe German, Dutch, Danish
Means "crab, shrimp", either a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught or sold shellfish, or a nickname based on someone’s way of walking.
Krabi Estonian
Krabi is an Estonian surname meaning "crab".
Krebsbach German
From a place name meaning "crab stream" in German.