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mastin Name Meaning and History

French: partly an occupational name for a household servant, from Old French mastin ‘watchdog’; ‘manservant’ (from Latin mansuetudinus ‘domestic’). The Old French word had the further sense of a bad-tempered dog, and was used as an adjective in the sense of ‘bad’, ‘cruel’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mastin Families in the US in 1920
Number of mastin families
 48-93
 17-47		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Looking for Mastins I am related to in some way prattscott2u 4
Mary Elizabeth Mastin Eileen Nisewanger 1
Fred Hint Mastin jeffhistory 1
Mary T. Mastin rikidd 0
Cornelis Mastin of Ulster Co., N.Y. in 1689 BasketLady420 0
Mastins of Ky. SMURFHILL 4
mastins in virginia lindamc01 0
Will of Thomas Mastin, Sr. Eileen Nisewanger 0
Mastin; North Carolina india2986 6
North Carolina-Mary Elizabeth Mastin joemont70 2
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