Last name: HORST
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HORST : This last name is indexed 406,396 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HORST : North German and Dutch: topographic name from Middle Low German hurst Middle Dutch horst ‘undergrowth brushwood wild place’. More specifically the term was also used to denote a crow's or similar large bird's nest a raised area in surrounding marshland or an area of uncleared woodland all of which meanings could have contributed to the surname. This surname is also a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. Compare Hurst.
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