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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.

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