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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German klōster (Old High German klōstar, from Late Latin clostrum ‘monastic cell’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a monastery or a metonymic occupational name for a servant in a monastery.
  • Dutch : variant of Klooster, cognate with 1.

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