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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Böttcher) : occupational name for a cooper, from Middle High German botecher, bötticher, bütticher, an agent derivative of botech(e), bottich, bütte ‘vat’, ‘barrel’. See also Binder, Buettner, and Schaeffler.

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