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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Pastor 2.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Polish pasterz ‘shepherd’.
  • English : generally a variant of Pastor, but possibly in some cases an occupational name for a baker, from an agent derivative of Old French paste ‘paste or dough’.

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