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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German wetter ‘weather’, specifically ‘stormy weather’, perhaps a nickname for someone who made weather predictions.
  • German : habitational name from any of numerous places so named.
  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch wetter ‘grindstone’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a knife grinder.

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