Marder Family History
Marder Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Marder Yiddish marder ‘pine marten’ (see 2 below). German: nickname from Middle High German marder ‘pine marten’. This was sometimes used as a nickname for a thief. English (Middlesex and Dorset): perhaps a variant of Marter with voicing of t to d.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022