Family name origins & meanings
- German (Pützer) topographic name for someone who lived by a pool (Latin puteus ‘well’, ‘pool’) or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for example Pütz in North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Probably a habitational name from a place called Putz in the former West Prussia, or from Pütz in Luxembourg (see Putz 2).
- (in Austria) topographic name for someone who lived by a well (see Putz).