Vetter Family History
- Vetter Name Meaning
- German: nickname from Middle High German veter(e) ‘uncle’, ‘nephew’. The word is from Old High German fetiro (a derivative of fater ‘father’), which was used more generally to denote various male relatives; the meaning of modern German Vetter is ‘cousin’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 464,877 Historical Documents with Vetter on Ancestry
- 264,789 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 38,129 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,382 Military Records
- 9,318 Immigration Records
- 136,259 Member Trees
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Number of Vetter families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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