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The easter Surname

easter Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone living to the east of a main settlement, from Middle English easter ‘eastern’, Old English easterra, in form a comparative of east ‘east’ (see East).
  2. English: habitational name from a group of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre ‘sheepfold’.
  3. English: nickname for someone who had some connection with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that time (Old English eastre, perhaps from the name of a pagan festival connected with the dawn).
  4. Translation of the German family name Oster.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of easter Families in the US in 1920
Number of easter families
 61-119
 21-60		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 264 - Messages: 762
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Easter family from KY, moved to Cass/Pettis County MO in 1830s & Mary Catharine Beagles djmeyer1 2
Easter Family History FLANIGAN 23
Levi Easter born 1902 minooka123 1
The Easte family's of Burlingame Kansas. dsegelquist 0
EASTERS OF COLOR ANGIE 33
family name vinteaster 1
Looking for my "Easter" lineage. vacowboy1960 2
easter[oster]/moyer lewisseljr 15
Franz Oster CarolEaster35 3
Rev. John D. Easter (1830-1912) Md>Ga>Neb>Ill>Calif. Bruce Merritt 2
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