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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).
  • English : variant of Coster.
  • The American military officer George Custer (1839–76) was a descendant of a German officer from Hesse by the name of Küster.

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