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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of German Kastner or respelling of Kassner.
  • Czech : topographic name for someone who lived on a street, from a derivative of German Gasse ‘street’, or possibly from German Kastner.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a community treasurer, from German Kastner or alternatively from German Kasse ‘cash(box)’, ‘coffer’ + the agent suffix -ner.

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