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koster Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and North German: status name for a sexton, Middle Dutch coster(e). Compare German Kuster.
  2. North German (Köster): occupational nickname or status name for a day laborer who owned no land, from Middle Low German koster, from kossater ‘cottager’.
  3. South German: occupational name for a wine taster, from kosten ‘to taste’.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a grocer or provisioner, from German Koster ‘provisions’, ‘foodstuffs’ + the agent suffix -er.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of koster Families in the US in 1920
Number of koster families
 80-157
 27-79		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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