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The fetzer Surname

fetzer Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for a ragman, from an agent derivative of Middle High German vetze ‘scrap’, ‘rag’ or vetzen ‘to tear or shred’.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived in a marshy area, from Swabian Fätsche ‘marsh’.
  3. altered spelling of Pfetzer, a nickname from Middle High German phetzen ‘to pinch’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The fetzer name in History

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Distribution of fetzer Families in the US in 1920
Number of fetzer families
 63-123
 22-62		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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