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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Frisian : from a Low German and Frisian pet form of Thetmar (standard German Dietmar), a personal name composed of the Germanic elements þeudo- ‘people’, ‘nation’ (unattested) + meri, mari ‘renowned’.

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