Family name origins & meanings
- German (Käterhagen) : habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
- Probably a topographic or habitational name from Ketter, a variant of Kötter ‘someone living in a small house’ (from Middle High German kote ‘small house’) + Hagen ‘hedge’(from Middle High German hag ‘scrub’, ‘enclosure’, ‘hedge’ (see also Kitterman).