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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of German (P)Frötzschner, a variant of Fretschner, an occupational name from Middle High German pfretzner ‘small trader’, ‘huckster’. The -ö- variant was common in the Upper Palatinate and Saxony.

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