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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a chain maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German keten(e) ‘chain’ (Latin catena).
  • German : metronymic from Ketter, a pet form of the personal name Katharina (see Catherine).

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