Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German gitter ‘railing’, ‘bar’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or barrier, or a metonymic occupational name for a janitor.
- German : habitational name from a place called Gitter near Brunswick; the place name is ancient name of uncertain origin, probably Celtic.
- Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine) : nickname or ornamental name from Yiddish dialect giter ‘good’, equivalent of Good.