Dorst Family History

German: topographic name for someone who lived on dry hard ground from dörr ‘dry’ or a habitational name from any of the places called Dorst near Cologne or Helmstedt or Dorste in the Harz Mountains.

German: nickname from Middle Low German dorst ‘boldness cunning’. Compare Durst.

German: metathesized form of Droste.

Dutch: variant of Van Dorst without preposition a habitational name from Dorst, a place in the province of North Brabant which placename has been explained from Dornt, -t plural of Dorn for a place with ‘thorn bushes’ after a consonant evolution known as zooming -r into -s.