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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : of uncertain origin; perhaps from Tinter, Dinter, an occupational name for a maker and seller of ink, from an agent derivative of Middle High German tin(c)te ‘ink’ (from Late Latin aqua tincta ‘colored water’).

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