Kist Family History
Kist Name Meaning
German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a carpenter manufacturer of wooden boxes and chests from Middle High German kiste ‘(clothes) chest’ Dutch kist ‘box chest coffin’. German: habitational name from Kist near Würzburg in Bavaria. German: Westphalian variant of Kirst .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022