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The kratz Surname

kratz Name Meaning and History

  1. from a short form of the medieval personal name Pankratz, a vernacular form of Latin Pancratius (see Pankratz), bestowed in honor of St. Pancras, one of the three ‘ice saints’ martyred under Diocletian.
  2. variant of Kraatz 1.
  3. from an old personal name formed with Old High German gratag ‘greedy’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kratz name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kratz family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kratz Families in the US in 1920
Number of kratz families
 95-187
 32-94		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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