Kreiter Family History
Kreiter Name Meaning
German: from Middle Low German kreter ‘quarreler’,
‘argumentative person’, ‘legal counsel’, a derivative of Middle Low
German krete ‘discord’, hence a nickname for a quarrelsome
person or an occupational name for a legal representative.German:
variant of Kreider.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic
occupational name for a seller of herbs, from Yiddish krayter
‘herbs’ (see Kraut).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kreiter Families
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Number of Kreiter families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kreiter Family Origin
Kreiter Immigration Information
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Kreiter Family Occupations
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