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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : metonymic occupational name for a scribe, from Middle High German zettel ‘document’.
  • South German : metonymic occupational name perhaps for a weaver, from Middle High German zettel(-garn) ‘thread’.
  • German : reduced form of Zettelmeier (see Zettlemoyer).

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