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reiter Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for a mounted soldier or knight, from Middle Low German rider, Middle High German riter ‘rider’.
  2. variant of Reuter 1.
  3. habitational name for someone from any of various places in Germany and Austria called Reit or Reith (see Reith).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of reiter Families in the US in 1920
Number of reiter families
 83-164
 28-82
 1-27
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