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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name for a steward or head servant, Middle Dutch drost, drossaert. Like the German cognate Droste, the term was also used as a title for various officials.
  • Danish and Polish : from German Droste.

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