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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a juror or a collector of legal fines.
  • German : occupational name for a basketmaker or a peddler, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kretze ‘basket’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Kretz, near Mayen in the Eifel Mountains.
  • German : variant of Kratzer.

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