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The durst Surname

durst Name Meaning and History

  1. (also Dürst): nickname from Middle High German turst ‘boldness’.
  2. from Middle High German durst ‘thirst’, applied as nickname, probably for a heavy drinker; or a habitational name from a farmstead in the Tyrol named with the same word, probably indicating a dry location.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of durst Families in the US in 1920
Number of durst families
 50-98
 17-49		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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