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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : nickname for a voluble person, from Middle High German swaderer ‘chatterer’.
  • South German : topographic name from the dialect term Schwader ‘marshes’ (a collective form of schwad ‘marshy place’), + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

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