Plotz

Family name origins & meanings

• German : variant of Plötz (see Ploetz).
• German : metonymic occupational name from platz, plotz ‘wedge (for splitting stone)’, or a nickname for a big, heavy man.
• German : variant of Platz 2.
• German : perhaps a nickname from a Slavic word meaning ‘roach’, e.g. Polish płoć.