Frequency: (346)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (Dötter): from a Germanic personal name formed with theud ‘people’, ‘race’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’ or hari, heri ‘army’.
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