Zylstra Family History
Zylstra Name Meaning
West Frisian and Dutch (mainly Groningen): variant mostly Americanized (or archaic) of Zijlstra a topographic name for someone who lived by a sluice from Dutch zijl ‘sluice’ (Frisian syl) + the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’. Compare Van Zyl .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022