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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