Arbogast
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Arbogast
Frequency: (2009)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southwest German and French (Alsace): from a Germanic name composed of arbi ‘inheritance’ + gast ‘stranger’. St. Arbogast was a 7th-century bishop of Strasbourg and is the patron saint of Alsace.
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