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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone living by a pine forest, from Grotz ‘pine tree top’.
  • South German : nickname from Alemannic and Swabian grotz ‘little man’, ‘shrimp’, originally ‘butt end’ (e.g. of an apple).

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