Kritz Family History
- Kritz Name Meaning
- German: metonymic occupational name for a gristmiller, from Middle High German grütze ‘grits’. German: from a Slavic form of the personal name Christian, possibly from Czech Kríž (see Kriz). German: from a dialect variant of Kreutz. Jewish (from Ukraine): nickname or occupational nickname for a wool carder or barber, from Yiddish krits ‘scratch’. Compare Kratzer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 19,760 Historical Documents with Kritz on Ancestry
- 8,128 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,471 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,049 Military Records
- 835 Immigration Records
- 5,277 Member Trees
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Number of Kritz families
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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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from 1881 UK Census Data
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