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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Van der Horst) : topographic name from Middle Dutch horst ‘brushwood’, ‘shrubs’, indicating a place that was overgrown, or possibly even a house bearing a stork’s nest (storks’ nests are large and untidy). Horst occurs as a placename in just about every province of the Netherlands.

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