The easter Surname
easter Name Meaning and History
- 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).
- English: habitational name from a group of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre ‘sheepfold’.
- 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).
- Translation of the German family name Oster.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| OTHER EASTERS | PATRICIA EASTER | 4 |
| EASTER/RYLIE(Riley) | L. ROBISON | 12 |
| Johan Adam, Adam, Mark and Peter Easter of Highland Co., OH |
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| EASTER Chester B |
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| Easter-Snider multiple hook-ups in Highland Co. Ohio. |
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| Melvin Bernard Easter |
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| EASTERS OF COLOR | ANGIE | 34 |
| Lucinda Easter | J Enlow CUnningham | 12 |
| Opal Easter MO>IL |
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| EASTER William R and Estelle L and John R |
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