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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained; perhaps an altered form of Krat(z)sch, a habitational name from Kratschütz, recorded in 1378 as Kracz.
  • German : from a personal name cognate with Old High German grātag ‘greedy’.
  • German : from the Czech personal name Kreč (Kretsch).

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