Last name: STATER

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STATER : This last name is indexed 3,190 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

STATER : 1: English: occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English stater(er) ‘official in charge of a public weighing machine’ (Anglo-Norman French estatere ‘balance-beam’).2: English: variant of Stather a habitational name probably from a locality on the River Trent formerly known as Stather (Old Norse stǫthvar ‘jetties landing-places wharves’) in the neighboring parishes of Burton upon Stather and Flixborough (Lincolnshire).3: German (Stäter): variant of Stäte (see State).

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