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nestor Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (Munster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Adhastair, formerly Mac Girr an Adhastair, a patronymic from a byname meaning ‘short man of the halter’.
  2. Humanistic Dutch and German name from a classical Greek personal name, borne by a king of Pylos who was one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan war, noted for his age and wisdom. In Homer’s Odyssey, the aged Nestor gives wise advice to Odysseus’ son Telemachos. According to Debrabandere, in Dutch this was a nickname sometimes given to the oldest person in a group.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of nestor Families in the US in 1920
Number of nestor families
 56-110
 19-55		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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