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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : variant of Ketterer, occupational name for a chain maker.
  • German : habitational name for someone from any of several places in Germany named Ketten.
  • German : variant of the Austrian topographic name Köther, from Middle High German kote ‘hut’, ‘day laborer’s cottage’ (see Koth, Kott).
  • Czech : from German Kettner, or Kötner, or alternatively a habitational name for someone from a place called Chotyně (German Ketten).

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