Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational nickname for a wool carder or a barber from an agent derivative of Middle High German, German kratzen, Yiddish kratsn ‘to scratch’.
  • patronymic from Kratz 1.
  • German : patronymic from Kratz.

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