Frequency: (480)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: topographic name for someone who lived by a gate leading to cultivated land, from Middle High German ezzisch ‘seed field’ + tor ‘gate’.
2. Jewish: variant of Esther.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
