Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a hatter from an agent derivative of Middle High German huot ‘hat’; Yiddish hut, German Hut ‘hat’.
- German (Hütter) : topographic name from Middle High German hütte ‘hut’.
- English : when not of German origin (see above), perhaps a variant of Hotter, an occupational name for a basket maker, Middle English hottere; the same term also denoted someone who carried baskets of sand for making mortar. Alternatively it may have denoted someone who lived in a hut or shed, from a derivative of Middle English hotte, hutte ‘hut’, ‘shed’.