Lichter Family History
- Lichter Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who made candles or possibly for someone who tended a light, from an agent derivative of from Middle High German lieht, Yiddish likht ‘candle’, ‘light’. German (Rhineland): variant of Leichter. Dutch: from Middle Dutch lichter ‘candlestick’, ‘chandelier’, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such items or perhaps for someone who tended a light, from an agent derivative of lichten ‘to make light’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,120 Historical Documents with Lichter on Ancestry
- 15,472 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,827 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,706 Military Records
- 2,003 Immigration Records
- 8,112 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Lichter families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Lichter last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lichter census records
You can see how Lichter families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Lichter immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Lichter families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Lichter emigration records
You can find out when most of the Lichter families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lichter census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Lichter ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Lichters fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×