Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name for someone who lived on dry, hard ground, from dörr ‘dry’, or a habitational name from places named Dorst near Cologne or Helmstedt or Dorste in the Harz Mountains.
- German : nickname from Middle Low German dorst ‘boldness’, ‘cunning’. Compare Durst.
- German : metathesized variant of Droste.