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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : perhaps a variant of Jetté (see Jette).
  • Perhaps also German, a variant of Jetter. Compare Yater.
  • According to family historians, John Jeter was one of a group of Huguenots who came from England to VA in 1700.

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