What We Know About the Printz Surname

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Printz, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

In the records

Printz is a last name with a clear footprint in official records. 1,626 Americans were listed as Printz in the 2010 census. INSEE counts 448 people born in France with the Printz surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1961–1970.

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Printz, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Wikidata records Printz as a German family name.

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