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jost Name Meaning and History

Dutch and German: from a personal name, a derivative of the Breton personal name Iodoc (see Joyce), or from the personal name Just (see Just).

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Distribution of jost Families in the US in 1840
Number of jost families
 3-3
 2-2
 1
 0
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