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The ploetz Surname

ploetz Name Meaning and History

  1. from plötz ‘roach’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught or sold these fish.
  2. variant of Plotz.
  3. from an altered and shortened form for the Slavic personal name Blogumil (from blogy ‘good’, ‘rich’, ‘happy’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ploetz Families in the US in 1920
Number of ploetz families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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