Richters Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Richters is usually a form of Richter.

The extra ending in Richters is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Richter's family. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Arms linked to Richter and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Richters report, with a museum-style coat of arms.