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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a vintner or someone who worked in a vineyard, from Middle High German kalter, kelter ‘wine press’.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : possibly a nickname meaning ‘the cold one’, from Kalt + the agent suffix -er.

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