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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of Swedish Åstrander or Östrander, probably of the same etymology as Ostrand, the addition of the suffix -er giving the appearance of a name formed with -ander (from Greek anēr, andros ‘man’).

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