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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : variant of Karst. The dropping of ‘r’ before ‘s’ is a regular feature of some north and central German dialects.
  • German : from an Alemannic short form of the medieval personal name Arbogast.
  • variant of Gast.

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