Last name origins & meanings:
- German (also Wächter) and Dutch: occupational name for a watchman, from Middle High
German wachtære, wehtære, Middle Dutch
wacht(e)re, German Wachter ‘watchman’, ‘guard’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Wachter ‘watchman’,
perhaps an occupational name by a synagogue beadle (Yiddish
shames).
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