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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name denoting someone who lived to the east of a settlement or who had immigrated to it from the east, from Middle High German oster ‘eastern’ + man ‘man’, or an ethnic name from Middle High German ōstermann ‘Austrian’.

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