KLATZMANN Origin of surname
KLATZMANN, KLATZMAN
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name may be a toponymic (derived from a geographic name of a town, city, region or country). Surnames that are based on place names do not always testify to direct origin from that place, but may indicate an indirect relation between the name-bearer or his ancestors and the place, such as birth place, temporary residence, trade, or family-relatives. The family name may also derive from a personal characteristic or nickname.
This Jewish family name could come from the German word Glatze which means "baldhead" and became Glatz/Klatz. If so, Klatzman(n) means "baldheaded man" ("-mann" being the German suffix for "man"). It could also come from Klotz, which is literally the German for an "unhewn piece of wood", and by extension an unwieldy bulky man. As a family name Klatzman(n) could also be based on the German Glotzen, which means to "stare/to have pop eyes".
Klatzman(n) could also indicate origin from the town of Glatz in lower Silesia, near Breslau (Germany), where a Jewish presence is first recorded in 1300, but Jews probably lived there since the 12th century. There are several other towns in Eastern Europe from which this name could be derived: Kletz(in)/Klets near Minsk in White Russia, formerly in Poland, where there has been a Jewish community since 1552; Kleszele/Kleschtscheli (also called Kleschewo, Kleczewer, Klecewski) in the county of Polesie in Poland where there has been a Jewish presence since the 16th century; and Kleck(o)/Kletzko near the city of Poznan (Posen) in Poland, where Jews lived since the 18th century.
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name may be a toponymic (derived from a geographic name of a town, city, region or country). Surnames that are based on place names do not always testify to direct origin from that place, but may indicate an indirect relation between the name-bearer or his ancestors and the place, such as birth place, temporary residence, trade, or family-relatives. The family name may also derive from a personal characteristic or nickname.
This Jewish family name could come from the German word Glatze which means "baldhead" and became Glatz/Klatz. If so, Klatzman(n) means "baldheaded man" ("-mann" being the German suffix for "man"). It could also come from Klotz, which is literally the German for an "unhewn piece of wood", and by extension an unwieldy bulky man. As a family name Klatzman(n) could also be based on the German Glotzen, which means to "stare/to have pop eyes".
Klatzman(n) could also indicate origin from the town of Glatz in lower Silesia, near Breslau (Germany), where a Jewish presence is first recorded in 1300, but Jews probably lived there since the 12th century. There are several other towns in Eastern Europe from which this name could be derived: Kletz(in)/Klets near Minsk in White Russia, formerly in Poland, where there has been a Jewish community since 1552; Kleszele/Kleschtscheli (also called Kleschewo, Kleczewer, Klecewski) in the county of Polesie in Poland where there has been a Jewish presence since the 16th century; and Kleck(o)/Kletzko near the city of Poznan (Posen) in Poland, where Jews lived since the 18th century.