Southern French and German: from Occitan astor ‘goshawk’
(from Latin acceptor, variant of accipiter ‘hawk’), used
as a nickname characterizing a predacious or otherwise hawklike
man. The name was taken to southwestern Germany by 17th-century
Waldensian refugees from their Alpine valleys above Italian
Piedmont.English: variant spelling of Aster.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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