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The kasten Surname

kasten Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and North German: from a vernacular personal name, a variant of Karsten.
  2. German: from Middle High German kasten ‘chest’, ‘coffer’ or kornkasten ‘grain bin’, hence a metonymic occupational name for the manager of a granary, and later for the treasurer of an estate or guild. See also Kastner.
  3. South German (Bavaria): topographic name from the dialect word Kasten ‘crag’, ‘steep rock’.
  4. Swedish (Kastén): from an unexplained first element, perhaps part of a place name, + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kasten Families in the US in 1920
Number of kasten families
 50-97
 17-49		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Kastens in Wisconsin Charlene Kendall 8
Kasten Dolton, IL (cook) kfoglio1 0
Franz Kasten Frank Kasten 1
William Kasten jeffanddawne 4
Photograph Found Terri 5
Kasten's in Missouri/Illinois Jeanna Kasten 9
Welcome Ken KASTEN 7
Henry (heinrich) Kasten- Hannover dinik1953 0
Kasten from Wisconsin jpangier 8
Carl E. Kasten, born MO Dec 1884, lived Evanston (Cook) IL margerice1 3
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