Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Wouter (see
Walter).
German (Häuter) and Jewish
(Ashkenazic): occupational name for a dealer in skins or hides, from
an agent derivative of Middle High German hut ‘skin’,
‘hide’, modern German Haut.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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