Demeter Family History

Hungarian, Czech, and Slovak: from the male personal name Demeter derived from Greek Dēmētrios (Latin Demetrius); see Dimitris. Americanized form of Greek Dimitris or of any of various other derivatives of the personal name Dimitri(o)s (Dēmētrios).

German: occupational name for a weaver or cloth merchant from an agent derivative of Middle High German timīt dimīt denoting a type of cloth woven with double thread (from Greek dimitos ‘two-threaded’).