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The coster Surname

coster Name Meaning and History

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of costards (Anglo-Norman French, from coste ‘rib’), a variety of large apples, so called for their prominent ribs. In some cases, it may have been a nickname (from the same word) for a person with an apple-shaped (i.e. round) head.
  2. Dutch: status name for a churchwarden, from Late Latin custor ‘guard’, ‘warden’.
  3. Variant spelling of German Koster.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of coster Families in the US in 1920
Number of coster families
 48-93
 17-47		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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