Streeter
A surname most commonly meaning “person who lived by a street or main road.”
The #2,987 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 25,755 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Streeter is built from Middle English street, from Old English strǣt, meaning a paved road or Roman road, plus the agent suffix -er. In surname use, it originally described someone who lived by a street or highway, rather than someone who worked in one. Some older sources also treat it as a simple local or residence name from “the street.”
History
The name appears in English records as a residence surname, and it remained fairly straightforward in meaning. Nineteenth-century surname writers sometimes compared it with related forms such as Street, Streat, Streater, and Streeton/Stretton. It is most associated with English usage and is especially attested in southern and eastern English records in the source material.
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Fun fact
Old surname dictionaries liked to gloss Streeter as the exact English equivalent of French De la Rue.
From the historical record
“STREETEN for Streeton, Stretton, q.v. STREETER = Street (q.v.) + the agent, suff. -er. STREETON = Stretton, q.v. STREFFORD, an assim. form of Stretford,q.v. STRELLEY "I (Eng.) Bel. to Strelly (Notts), STRELLY J i2th cent. Stretleg, Stratlega = the Street-Lea [v. under Street, and”
— Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (2 vols in 1)