During the centuries and depending on locations there arose several different mutations of our surname Hutsteiner. Most important ones are:
mutation | annotation |
Huestainer | this is the original spelling of Hutsteiner in the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria |
Huettensteiner | spelling found only in the dominion of Falkenstein and later in Hartmannsdorf, Saxony, till 1650s |
Huettstainer | Steiner was spelled as -stainer in Bavaria/Austria in former times, pronounciation identical |
Huetsteiner | according bavarian/austrian pronounciation, Hut- was most of the time spelled as Huet- until ~1650s |
Hutsteiner | The modern version since the 1700s |
Hutstein | in about 1800 some Hutsteiner lost the ending -er in church records, either by mistake or intentionally as part of a new fad |
Huthsteiner | in Saxony and Hesse Hut- was often spelled as Huth- which changed Hutsteiner to Huthsteiner, mainly after 1700 |