American Family Name Origins:
Qualters
Frequency: (100)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish: reduced form of MacWalter, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ualtair, Mac Uaitear, to which an English patronymic -s has been added.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
