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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Morgenstern ‘morning star’, Yiddish morgn-shtern, one of the Jewish ornamental names taken from natural phenomena.
  • German : habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by a sign depicting the morning star, Middle High German morgensterne.

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