Family name origins & meanings
- German (Bavaria) : topographic name for someone who lived on or owned a property that was in the middle between two or more others, especially if the others were both held by men with the same personal name (for example, Mitter Hans), from the strong form of Middle High German mitte ‘mid’, ‘middle’.
- Indian (Panjab) : Hindu (Arora) and Sikh name from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’.