Kritz Family History

Kritz Name Meaning

German: metonymic occupational name for a gristmiller, from Middle High German grütze ‘grits’.German: from a Slavic form of the personal name Christian, possibly from Czech Kríž (see Kriz).German: from a dialect variant of Kreutz.Jewish (from Ukraine): nickname or occupational nickname for a wool carder or barber, from Yiddish krits ‘scratch’. Compare Kratzer.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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