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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Köstner) occupational name from the Bavarian, Franconian dialect word Köstner ‘granary administrator’, ‘treasurer’.
  • German (Köstner) : habitational name for someone from either of two places: Kösten near Bamberg, or Köstenberg.
  • German : topographic name for someone living on a ‘shelf’ in the mountains, from Latin costa ‘rib’, ‘side’, ‘flank’.

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