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batz Name Meaning and History

  1. from Alemannic, Swabian Batz ‘pile’, ‘large quantity’, possibly applied as a nickname either for a man of large physical proportions or for a man of wealth. The term also denoted a coin and may have been used metonymically for a coiner. The name of the coin is believed to have been derived from its imprint of a bear, known in folklore as Betz or Petz.
  2. (Bätz): see Betz.

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Distribution of batz Families in the US in 1840
Number of batz families
 5-7
 2-4
 1
 0
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