Otter Family History
Otter Name Meaning
English German Dutch and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for an otter hunter or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling an otter from Middle English Middle High German oter Middle Dutch otter German Otter ‘otter’. The Jewish surname can be artificial. German: from an ancient Germanic personal name formed with ōd ‘possession’ + hāri ‘army’. English: from the Old Norse personal name Óttarr (from ótti ‘fear dread’) which could be Anglicized in Old English as Ohthere.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022