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Last name origin & meaning:

German (also Pächter), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a tenant farmer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German phaht ‘contract’ or ‘rent’ (from Late Latin pacta ‘contract’, ‘tax’), Middle Dutch pachtere ‘tenant’, ‘leaseholder’, or modern German Pächter ‘leaseholder’.

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