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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places so named in northern Germany.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a barber or nickname for someone who wore a conspicuous tassel or feather, from Middle Low German, Middle High German quast(e) ‘tuft’, ‘tassel’, ‘brush’, also ‘fool’.

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