Dorst Family History
Dorst Name Meaning
topographic name for someone who lived on dry, hard ground, from dörr ‘dry’, or a habitational name from places named Dorst near Cologne or Helmstedt or Dorste in the Harz Mountains. nickname from Middle Low German dorst ‘boldness’, ‘cunning’. Compare Durst. metathesized variant of Droste.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press