Pachter Family History
Pachter Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Pächter); Dutch: status name for a tenant farmer from an agent derivative of Middle High German pfaht ‘contract’ or ‘rent’ (from Late Latin pacta ‘contract tax’) Middle Dutch pachtere ‘tenant leaseholder’ or modern German Pächter ‘leaseholder’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022