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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the medieval personal name Pankratz, a vernacular form of Latin Pancratius (see Pankratz), bestowed in honor of St. Pancras, one of the three ‘ice saints’ martyred under Diocletian.
  • German : variant of Kraatz 1.
  • German : from an old personal name formed with Old High German grātag ‘greedy’.

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