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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Österle) : apparently from a diminutive of a base form Oster, which has two possible derivations:
  • ‘eastern’, denoting someone who lived to the east of a settlement or who came from the east.
  • from a personal name.

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