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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Son of the austere man

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : patronymic from the comparatively rare Anglo-Norman French personal name Hasten(c), Hastang, assimilated to Hastings. The personal name is of Old Norse origin, composed of the elements ‘high’ + steinn ‘stone’.

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