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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Cateringe, probably from an unattested Old English personal name Cytra + -ingas, a suffix denoting ‘family or followers of’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Ketterling.

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