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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : perhaps an occupational name from Middle High German treter ‘dancer’, ‘clown’, an agent derivative of treten ‘to step or dance’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish treter, German Treter ‘grape presser’.

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