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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon), Dutch, and German : occupational name for a baker, from Anglo-Norman French pestour, pistour, Middle Dutch pester, pister ‘baker’ (Old French pestor, pesteur, German Pistor, from Latin pistor).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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