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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Badertscher, an occupational name for a barber, from Middle High German bart ‘beard’ + scher ‘cutter’, ‘shearer’, an agent derivative of scheren ‘to clip’.

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