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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German form of Meister or Dutch variant of Meester.
  • Hungarian : occupational name for a teacher, or master craftsman, from the vocabulary word mester ‘master’, ‘craftsman’, or alternatively a status name for a learned person. Compare Meister.

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