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doster Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German doste, toste ‘wild thyme’, ‘shrub’, ‘bouquet’ (see Dost), hence a topographic name, especially for someone whose land abutted an uncultivated piece of land, or possibly an occupational name for a dealer in herbs.
  2. Belgian French: habitational name, with the preposition d(e), for someone from either of two places in the province of Luxembourg named Oster.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of doster Families in the US in 1920
Number of doster families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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