Kretzer Family History
Kretzer Name Meaning
nickname for a juror or a collector of legal fines. occupational name for a basketmaker or a peddler, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kretze ‘basket’. habitational name for someone from Kretz, near Mayen in the Eifel Mountains. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kratzer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press