Family name origins & meanings
- German : from a short form of the medieval personal name Pankratz, a vernacular form of Latin Pancratius (see Pankratz), bestowed in honor of St. Pancras, one of the three ‘ice saints’ martyred under Diocletian.
- German : variant of Kraatz 1.
- German : from an old personal name formed with Old High German grātag ‘greedy’.