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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from the personal name Detert, which is a reduced of Dethard, from an old personal name composed of Old Saxon thioda ‘people’, ‘race’ + hard ‘strong’. This a deduced form of Dietrich.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Dieter.

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