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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname from Yiddish glotser ‘gaper’.
  • German : probably a nickname from Middle High German glotzen ‘to stare’.
  • German : possibly a variant of Glatzer.

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