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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a respelling of Kasten, either a habitational name from a place so named, for example in Styria and Upper Austria, or from the Frisian personal name Karsten, equivalent to Christian.
  • German : variant of Kesten 1; also of Sorbian origin.

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