Ratz Family History
Ratz Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname, probably for an agile
or opportunistic individual, from Middle High German ratz
‘rat’, ‘marten’, ‘polecat’.German (also Rätz): from a
pet form of a compound personal name with the first element
rad ‘advice’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): acronym of
uncertain derivation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ratz Families
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Number of Ratz families
 55 - 108  19 - 54 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ratz Family Origin
Ratz Immigration Information
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Ratz Family Occupations
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