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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : variant spelling of Best.
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by the Beste river, a tributary of the Trave, or a habitational name from any of various villages called Besten, said by Bahlow to be named with a Middle Low German word for poor soil.

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