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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : probably an occupational name for a coiner, from krüzer ‘kreutzer’ (the coin), a dialect variant of Kreutzer.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kretzer.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kratzer, from Yiddish kritsn ‘to scratch’.

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