Last name: DYKSTRA
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Last name frequency
DYKSTRA : This last name is indexed 5,275 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DYKSTRA : West Frisian and Dutch: variant mostly archaic or Americanized of Dijkstra composed of Dutch dijk ‘dike’ + the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’ hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a dike and a habitational name for someone from a place called after its dike such as Surhuizumerdijk and Haskerdijken. The surname Dykstra is also found in Germany including East Frisia.
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