Gertz Family History
Gertz Name Meaning
North German: patronymic from a short form (Gert) of the personal name Gerhardt . Germanized form of Sorbian Gerc: occupational name for a (wayfaring) musician or a fiddler Lower Sorbian gerc. Compare Goertz . Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Hertz and Herz originating under Russian influence since Russian has no h and alters it to g in borrowed words and names.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022