Name Meaning

Name Meaning

KROMMINGA:

The German family Kromminga is classified as being of personal name origin. As in the case of many family names this surname derives its origins from the given name of one of the parents of its initial bearer. Where the name is derived from the father’s first name it is referred to as being patronymic in origin and when it is derived from the personal name of the mother it is referred to as being matronymic in origin. With regard to Kromminga, the inspiration for the family name came from a Frisian pet form of the old Germanic personal name “Romulf”, itself derived from the Old High German “hruom”, meaning “famous” or “renowned”. The Fresians are a Germanic people who have dwelled in northern Holland and northwestern Germany for more than two thousand years and Frisian surnames are readily identifiable because of their distinctive endings, such as “-inga” and “-stra”. Variants of the surname include “Krommenga” and “Crumminga”. Two of the earliest references to this name, or to a variant, are the records of “Amos Crumminga”, who was the “Herschop” or chief of the village of Bingum in 1460 and “Geldericus Crumminga”, who dwelled in Emden in 1614. However, research is of course ongoing and this name may have been documented even earlier than the date indicated above. According to scholars Hanks and Hodges it was not until the sixteenth century that hereditary surnames were universally in use in Germany although the process first began in the middle of the twelfth century.

C & K SOUNDS IN GERMAN:

C is a K sound in German. Thus Conrad is Konrad; Kohlman is often written Coleman; and Carl is Karl.

KROMMINGA – KRUMMINGA – CRUMMINGA:

It has been speculated that there is a connection between the names Kromminga - Krumminga - Crumminga. Helena Everline Kromminga daughter of Wilhelm Everts Kromminga and Geertje Engelina Steenblock changed her name to Helene Eveline Krumminga. Since these two names appear to be connected then it is possible that Kromminga and Crumminga are connected too. Helena or Helene was born in 1866.