Richter Family History
Richter Name Meaning
German: occupational name or status name for an arbiter or
judge, Middle High German rihtære (from rihten ‘to
make right’). The term was used in the Middle Ages mostly to denote a
part-time legal official. Such communal conciliators held a position
of considerable esteem in rural communities; in eastern Germany the
term came to denote a village headman, which was often a hereditary
office. It is in this region that the surname is most frequent.Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a rabbinic judge, from
modern German Richter ‘judge’ (see 1 above). See also
Dayan.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Richter Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Richter families
 358 - 714  120 - 357 |
 1 - 119  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Richter families
|
59 - 115 20 - 58 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Richter families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Richter Family Origin
Richter Immigration Information
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Richter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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