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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: nickname for someone with a loud laugh, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kachen ‘to laugh’.
  2. Americanized spelling of Kacer, Kachur, or Kaczor.
  3. Jewish (from Ukraine): ornamental name from Yiddish katsher ‘drake’. Compare Kacer.