Last name: KRANTZ

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KRANTZ : This last name is indexed 60,128 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

KRANTZ : 1: German and Dutch: variant of Kranz and in North America (also) an altered form of this. This surname is also found in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Cronce and Krontz.2: Swedish: ornamental name from an old or ornamental spelling of krans ‘wreath garland’. Compare Krans.3: Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Kranjec Kranjc and Krajnc and possibly also of Croatian Kranjec: habitational name for someone from Kranjska (German name: Krain; Latin and English name: Carniola) a duchy of the former Habsburg Empire comprising the central part of Slovenia. The name Kranjec was also used as a term denoting a Slovene. Krajnc is the fourth most frequent surname in Slovenia. Compare Kranz and Kranitz; see also Kraner.

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