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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a market inspector or possibly a tax official, Middle High German setzer, an agent derivative of Middle High German setzen ‘to set (prices)’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from German Setzer, Yiddish zetser ‘typesetter’, ‘compositor of typography’.

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