Family name origins & meanings
- South German : (Austria, Bavaria): topographic name for someone who lived by a well, putz (Latin puteus).
- South German : from pütz ‘well’ (see 1), or a habitational name from a place so named in Luxembourg.
- South German : from a pet form of the personal name Burghard.
- South German : nickname from a byname for the devil. See also Butz.