Kritz Family History
Kritz Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a grist miller from Middle High German grütze ‘grits’. German: from a Germanized Slavic form of the personal name Christian probably influenced by Czech Kříž (see Kriz ). German: from a dialect variant of Kreutz . Jewish (from Ukraine): nickname from Yiddish krits ‘scratch’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022