English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire,
recorded in Domesday Book as Cateringe, probably from an
unattested Old English personal name Cytra + -ingas, a
suffix denoting ‘family or followers of’. 1881 British census has 3,
UK 1.Possibly an altered spelling of German
Ketterling.
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