Waterer Family History
Waterer Name Meaning
from Middle English *waterer denoting one who lived by a stretch of water such as a village pond or a stream as proven by the 1547–50 alias Atwater. Topographic names in -er were especially common in Surrey Sussex and Hants. This example became particularly numerous as a hereditary surname in Surrey where it was still most frequent in the 1881 Census. There is no evidence to support Reaney's view that the name was occupational from Middle English waterer ‘a person responsible for watering animals’ (attested once before 1500 in
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016