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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian : habitational name for someone from either of two places in Gelderland called Voorst.
  • Dutch and Belgian : habitational name from any of several places named Vorst or Vurste, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from Middle Dutch vorst (from Latin forestum).

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