The story
- Middle High German · derived fromkresse“gudgeon”
- English todayKrass
* As a German surname, from krass (“extreme, stark”). * Also as a south German surname (Kräss), variant of Kress, itself converged from several origins such as variations of the name Christian, and the obsolete Middle High German kresse (“gudgeon”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.