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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Silesian) : from Middle High German pfütze ‘puddle’ (Latin puteus ‘well’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a pond. See also Pfitzer.
  • German (Silesian) : from the southern form of the personal name Vincenz (see Vincent).

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