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Haste

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : metonymic occupational name for a turnspit, i.e. a servant who turned the spit, from Old French haste ‘(roasting) spit’.
  • A bearer of the name Haste from Paris is documented in Montreal in 1662.

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