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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