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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • In all probability a Germanized spelling of Karsdorp, the name of a prominent Dutch Mennonite family in Leiden, some of which reportedly moved to Hamburg, Germany.
  • German : habitational name from places in Saxony or former West Prussia called Kasdorf or Kastorf, named with the Rhineland dialect word Kas, Kos ‘copse of young oaks’ + Old High German dorf, thorf ‘village’.
  • (Käsdorf) : habitational name from any of several places in Lower Saxony named Käsdorf.

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