Given names often turned into family names when people were identified by their father's name. For example, the first name Ahrend developed into the family name Ahrends by adding a genitive s-ending, as in Ahrend's son. Examples: Ahrends, Burkhard, Wulff, Friedrich, Benz.
So accordingly. 1  some crouching positions are squats. 2  some crouching positions may not be squats. 3  squatting is not implicity crouching.  squatting and crouching are terms with different but overlapping definitions, the former more specific to posture, the latter to 1  motivation. squat is not a synonym for crouch.
n. exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles. n. the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels.