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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Küter) : occupational name for a butcher or sausage maker, from Middle High German, Middle Low German kuter ‘butcher’ (from kut ‘entrails’, ‘tripe’).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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