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Hauter

Updated: April 23, 2025
Updated: April 23, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Wouter (see Walter).
  • German (Häuter) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a dealer in skins or hides, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hūt ‘skin’, ‘hide’, modern German Haut.

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