Stater Family History
Stater Name Meaning
English: occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English stater(er) ‘official in charge of a public weighing machine’ (Anglo-Norman French estatere ‘balance-beam’). English: variant of Stather a habitational name probably from a locality on the River Trent formerly known as Stather (Old Norse stǫthvar ‘jetties landing-places wharves’) in the neighboring parishes of Burton upon Stather and Flixborough (Lincolnshire). German (Stäter): variant of Stäte (see State ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022