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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name cognate with Old High German grātag ‘greedy’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Grätz, the German name of the Polish town Grodzisk, near Poznań.

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