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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : derivative of the personal name Piter, dialect variant of Piotr (see Peter).
  • Polish : nickname from a derivative of piter ‘purse’, ‘money bag’.
  • Southern Italian (Piterà) and Greek (Piteras) : occupational name from medieval Greek piteras ‘bran merchant’, or pitaras, ‘maker of pita bread’ or ‘pie maker’ from pita ‘flat bread’, ‘pie’ + the occupational suffix -as.

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