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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of German Austel, from a pet form of August.
  • English : possibly a variant of Astle. There is a place in Cornwall called St. Austell (from the dedication of its church to a certain St. Austol), but this is unlikely to be the source of the surname.

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