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Updated February 14, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • German : Valiant fighter
  • English : Brown rock

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Dark stone

Boy name variations

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly from a medieval personal name Tustin, derived via Old French Toustin from Old Norse Þorsteinn ‘Thor’s stone’. Compare Thurston.
  • Altered form of French D’Estaing, a topographic name, with the preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone who lived by a pond, Old French esta(i)ng, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for example Estaing in Aveyron and Hautes Pyrénées.
  • French : habitational name, with preposition de, for someone from Stain in the Belgian province of Namur.

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