origin of last name messer
The surname of MESSER is a German and Ashkenazic Jewish occupational name for a cutler, derived from the German word MESSER, meaning knife, or from the Yiddish word MESER.he family's surname is said to date back to an ancestor who had been in charge of corn distribution during a famine in 1395. This ancestor was knighted and when Maeterlinck was created a count in 1932 he assumed the same arms.