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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name from Old French gaste ‘uncultivated or ravaged land.’
  • The name is mentioned in Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1650, and a bearer of the name was married there in 1663.

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