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View Surname: Winter


WINTER
SOURCE: Occupation
Meaning & History
From the Old English winter or the Old High German wintar (Middle High German winter) meaning "winter". This was the name of farmers who had to deliver their taxes in the winter and of farmers who had their fields in the north of the village.



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