The story
- German · derived fromKroppli
- Old English · derived fromcropp“swelling, mound”
- English todayCropley
Two possible origins: * English habitational surname from a minor place in Suffolk, from Old English cropp (“swelling, mound”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to crop + -ley (“lea”). * Americanized spelling of Swiss German Kroppli, a variant of Kropf.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcropp all →
crop
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.