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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a derivative of Amstel, the name of the river that flows through Amsterdam; hence a habitational name for someone from Amsterdam, equivalent of van Amstel.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from German Hamster ‘hoarder’.

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