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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a gristmiller, from Middle High German grütze ‘grits’.
  • German : from a Slavic form of the personal name Christian, possibly from Czech Kříž (see Kriz).
  • German : from a dialect variant of Kreutz.
  • Jewish (from Ukraine) : nickname or occupational nickname for a wool carder or barber, from Yiddish krits ‘scratch’. Compare Kratzer.

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