Last name origins & meanings:
- Czech (Kačer), Slovak (Káčer), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Czech
kačer ‘drake’, probably applied as a nickname for someone
with some fancied resemblance to a drake, or perhaps a metonymic
occupational name for a poultry seller. As a Jewish surname it is
mainly ornamental.
- Hungarian (Kacér): nickname
from kacér ‘immoral’, ‘narcissistic’, ‘seductive’ (from
Middle High German kether, ketzer, katzer
‘heretic’, ‘sodomite’).
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