Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Cheshire called Astle, from Old English ēast ‘east’ + hyll ‘hill’. There may also have been some confusion with Asthall and Astley.
  • German : variant of Ast(e)l, probably a nickname for a crude person, from Middle High German ast ‘branch’, ‘bough’, ‘knot’.