Bast Family History
Bast Name Meaning
German: from a short form of the personal name
Sebastian.French: from bast ‘saddle pad for a beast
of burden’, hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of
such saddles or more probably a derogatory nickname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bast
Name Distribution of Bast Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bast families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Bast last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bast Family Origin
Bast Emigration Information (US)
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Bast Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Bast
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