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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of a Swiss German habitational name, from places called Dierstein in Baden and northern Bavaria.
  • This is the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, originally from Berne canton, that was in the Palatinate in the early 18th century and subsequently came to North America.

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