Lichter Family History
Lichter Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone
who made candles or possibly for someone who tended a light, from an
agent derivative of from Middle High German lieht, Yiddish
likht ‘candle’, ‘light’.German (Rhineland): variant of
Leichter.Dutch: from Middle Dutch lichter
‘candlestick’, ‘chandelier’, hence probably a metonymic occupational
name for a maker of such items or perhaps for someone who tended a
light, from an agent derivative of lichten ‘to make light’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lichter Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lichter families
 20 - 38  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lichter families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lichter Family Origin
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Lichter Family Occupations
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