Last name: WITTER
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Last name frequency
WITTER : This last name is indexed 39,561 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WITTER : 1: German: from an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements wid(u) ‘wood forest’ + hari ‘army’.2: North German: occupational name for a whitewasher or plasterer from Middle Low German witten ‘to make white’ or for a coiner from witten ‘to determine the contents of gold or silver by boiling’.3: English (Lancashire and Cheshire): variant of Whitter.
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