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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kettermann) : occupational name for a chain maker, from Middle High German keten(e) ‘chain’ + man ‘man’.
  • German (Kettermann) : metronymic from the female personal name Ketter, a pet form of Katharina (see Catherine).

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