Gaster (surname)

This article is about the surname. For other uses, see Gaster (disambiguation).

Gaster is a German surname. The Dictionary of American Family Names (2003) suggests that it may be a derivation from Gast "guest". There were 918 entries in the US white pages for this name as of 2013, the largest number (221 entries) in North Carolina.^[1] In Germany, there were 95 entries as of 2008.^[2]

Notable bearers of the name include:

Jack Gaster (1907–2007), British communist solicitor and politician. son of Moses Gaster
Jean-Paul Gaster (born 1971), American drummer
Michael Gaster, British aerospace engineer
Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Romanian-born British rabbi and scholar
Theodor Gaster (1906–1992), British-born American Biblical scholar, son of Moses Gaster

References

↑ http://names.whitepages.com/last/Gaster
↑ http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/gaster.html

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, March 23, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.