Ratz Family History
- Ratz Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname, probably for an agile or opportunistic individual, from Middle High German ratz ‘rat’, ‘marten’, ‘polecat’. German (also Rätz): from a pet form of a compound personal name with the first element rad ‘advice’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): acronym of uncertain derivation.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 150,543 Historical Documents with Ratz on Ancestry
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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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