Given name & surname
Shutter
“to shoot”
Shutter is a surname from Middle English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Shutter goes back to Middle English shoten, meaning “to shoot.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Shutter’s family of names
In English usage, Shutter as a surname has a related form in SCHUTTER.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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