Kretzer Family History
Kretzer Name Meaning
German: nickname for a juror or a collector of legal fines. German: occupational name for a basketmaker or a peddler from an agent derivative of Middle High German kretze ‘basket’. German: habitational name for someone from Kretz near Mayen in the Eifel Mountains. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kratzer .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022