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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone living near bushes or brush, from Middle High German doste, toste ‘leafy branch’, or a habitational name from a house with a sign depicting a bush.
  • South German : altered spelling of Dasch.

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