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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish graytser ‘kreuzer’, the old Austro-Hungarian unit of currency.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from Yiddish graytser ‘corkscrew’.

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