Family name origins & meanings
- German (also Schrätz) : nickname for someone with a strange appearance, a bogeyman, from Middle High German schrat ‘goblin’, ‘specter’,
- German (also Schrätz) : topographic name from Alemannic schratt ‘gorge’.
- German (also Schrätz) : Possibly also a nickname for a greedy person, from Czech žrac ‘devourer’, or a Sorbian cognate.