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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kritzmann) : topographic name for someone living near a cross (see Kreutzer).
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a gristmiller, from Middle High German grütze, Yiddish grits ‘grits’ + Middle High German, Yiddish man ‘man’.
  • Jewish : elaborated form of Kritz.

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