Boettiger Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Boettiger is a familiar spelling of the German name Boettcher. The family name meaning is “One who made, or sold, barrels or casks, a cooper”, the same as for Boettcher.

Before spelling was fixed, Boettcher was also written Boettiger. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Boettger and Boetticher.

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