The spelling of the surname Kraybill has been changed a couple of times over the past 500 years.  When arriving on American soil in the mid 18th century, the name was changed to "Kraybill," as well as into other versions, from "Krähenbühl."  In high German, "Krähenbühl" translates directly into English as "Crow Hill."  However, the name Kraybill originally hails from the Emmental, or Valley around the Emme River, region in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland.  In the mid sixteenth century, the surname of the now American Kraybills changed for the first time after many moved to Germany to avoid being burned at the stake in Switzerland for their non-catholic Christian beliefs.  This first change of the surname was to the High German form of "Krähenbühl" from the Swiss German form of "Chräybüel,"  It has been written by some family historians that have done more extensive research on the origins of the surname "Kraybill," that in Swiss German, this original form of the surname has a more romantic translation into English of "Dweller at the Sign of the Crow."  See the photo below showing a map in Switzerland showing "Chräybüel."  It is actually just a large hill atop which a single building stands.  This is the "Crow Hill" after which anyone with with the surname "Kraybill" was named.  This Kraybill has been there more than once, and there were always many very large, very loud crows in the area making their presence known.