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dorst Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived on dry, hard ground, from dörr ‘dry’, or a habitational name from places named Dorst near Cologne or Helmstedt or Dorste in the Harz Mountains.
  2. nickname from Middle Low German dorst ‘boldness’, ‘cunning’. Compare Durst.
  3. metathesized variant of Droste.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The dorst name in History

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Distribution of dorst Families in the US in 1920
Number of dorst families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 9 - Messages: 30
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Jacob Dorst aesmith1973 2
DORST/LEGALLE shelley007 0
Dorst from New York Quotie 5
Carl Gustavus Dust/Dorst born 1726 Germany Married: NETH koskidust 0
Ella, Eddie, Phil Dorst (Dorse?) LANGHOFF 0
Adopted Jon Shoults 2
Jacob Dorst Don Dorst 12
N.C. DORST & BUMGARNERs Robert Bumgardner 0
Dorst ? Durst Donna Abenroth 0
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