Kasten Family History
Kasten Name Meaning
Dutch and North German: from a vernacular personal name, a
variant of Karsten.German: from Middle High German
kasten ‘chest’, ‘coffer’ or kornkasten ‘grain bin’,
hence a metonymic occupational name for the manager of a granary, and
later for the treasurer of an estate or guild. See also
Kastner.South German (Bavaria): topographic name
from the dialect word Kasten ‘crag’, ‘steep rock’.Swedish
(Kastén): from an unexplained first element, perhaps part of
a place name, + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of
Latin -enius.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kasten
Name Distribution of Kasten Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kasten families
 50 - 97  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kasten families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Kasten last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kasten census records
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Kasten Family Origin
Kasten Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Kasten
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Kasten Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kasten census records
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Kasten Civil War Service Records
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