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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Fürst) : nickname from Old High German furisto ‘the first’, ‘most noble one’, a cognate of Old English fyrest ‘first’, ‘foremost’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Fürst ‘prince’.

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