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Meter

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name, literally ‘measurer’, denoting an official responsible for dispensing grain from a central warehouse, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch meten ‘measure out’.

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