The story
- Old English · derived fromcrūċ“cross”
- English todayCruttenden
Probably a habitational surname from a lost village in Kent, perhaps from Old English crūċ (“cross”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + denn (“woodland pasture”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcrūċ all →
crouchCrittall
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.