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The kratzer Surname

kratzer Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational nickname for a wool carder or a barber from an agent derivative of Middle High German, German kratzen, Yiddish kratsn ‘to scratch’.
  2. patronymic from Kratz 1.
  3. German: patronymic from Kratz.

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Distribution of kratzer Families in the US in 1920
Number of kratzer families
 85-168
 29-84		 1-28
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