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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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