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dust Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Old English dust ‘dust’, applied as a nickname, possibly for someone with a dusty complexion or hair (as, for example, a miller), or for a worthless person.
  2. North German: possibly a Westphalian habitational name from a farm named with dost ‘bush’, ‘brush’. However, the word also means ‘fine dust’, ‘flour’ and may have been applied as an occupational nickname for a miller. Compare 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dust Families in the US in 1920
Number of dust families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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