Kaster
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Frequency: (742)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. habitational name from Caster in Rhineland. 2. (also Käster): variant of Kasten 2 or a metonymic occupational name for a joiner or furniture maker, from Middle High German kasten ‘box’, ‘chest’, ‘shrine’.
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