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The hester Surname

hester Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous beech tree, Middle Low German hester.
  2. Irish (mainly County Mayo): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistir ‘descendant of Oistir’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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hester Family Facts

Distribution of hester Families in the US in 1920
Number of hester families
 170-338
 57-169		 1-56
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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