Family name origins & meanings
- 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 Kříž (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.