Goltz Family History
Goltz Name Meaning
East German: habitational name from Golz or Golssen in eastern Germany placenames that may derive from Sorbian or other Slavic góla hola etc. ‘heath’. Germanized form of Sorbian Gólc: nickname or status name from Lower Sorbian gólc ‘boy young man’ also ‘apprentice farmhand’. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood or an artificial name from German Holz ‘wood’ altered under Russian influence since Russian has no h and alters it to g in borrowed words and names. Germanized form of Slovenian Golec .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022