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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with hrōd ‘renown’, ‘victory’.
  • German : from Alemannic Grotz, meaning ‘shrimp’, possibly a nickname for a little man.
  • Possibly a respelling of German Kratz.

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