Frequency: (316)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. (Dötterer): variant of Dötter (see Dotter). 2. possibly a nickname for a person with a tottering gait, from a dialect agent noun based on dottern ‘to totter’.
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