American Family Name Origins:
Billeter
Frequency: (210)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Swiss German: 1. habitational name for someone from Bilten (formerly Biliton) in the canton of Glarus. 2. occupational name for a military quartermaster from French billet, here ‘certificate or voucher’ (held by soldiers to be given lodgings), a loan word dating back to the Thirty Years War.
GIVEN NAME German 4%. Kurt (2).
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