Family name origins & meanings
- German (Plötz) : from plötz ‘roach’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught or sold these fish.
- German (Plötz) : variant of Plotz.
- German (Plötz) : from an altered and shortened form for the Slavic personal name Blogumil (from blogy ‘good’, ‘rich’, ‘happy’).