English: topographic name for someone living to the east of a
main settlement, from Middle English easter ‘eastern’, Old
English easterra, in form a comparative of east
‘east’ (see East).English: habitational name from a group
of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre
‘sheepfold’.English: nickname for someone who had some connection
with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that
time (Old English eastre, perhaps from the name of a pagan
festival connected with the dawn).Translation of the
German family name Oster.
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