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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Österlin : from the personal name Österlin, composed of the elements oster ‘Easter’ + the hypocoristic suffix -lin, thus denoting a child born on Easter Day.
  • Americanized form of German Österlin : nickname for someone living to the east of a settlement or coming from a place in the east, from late Middle High German ost ‘east’.

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