Demeter Family History
Demeter Name Meaning
Hungarian Czech and Slovak: from the male personal name Demeter derived from Greek Dēmētrios (Latin Demetrius); see Dimitris . Americanized form of Greek Dimitris or of any of various other derivatives of the personal name Dimitri(o)s (Dēmētrios). German: occupational name for a weaver or cloth merchant from an agent derivative of Middle High German timīt dimīt denoting a type of cloth woven with double thread (from Greek dimitos ‘two-threaded’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022