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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : habitational name from any of various farms so named, from Middle High German plaz, blaz ‘place’. Compare Platz.
  • South German : metonymic occupational name for a baker, from Blatz, a type of flat loaf.

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