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Pitter

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or hollow (see Pitt) + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.
German : variant of Peter.
Jewish (from Ukraine) : metonymic occupational nanme from Yiddish dialect piter ‘butter’. Compare Putterman.