Last name: MASTER

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MASTER : This last name is indexed 54,961 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

MASTER : 1: English: occupational name from Middle English maister ‘master’ (Old French maistre). The word had a wide range of applications and the reference in surnames may be to a schoolmaster to the master of a farm or house to the master of an apprentice or to a ship's captain. In Scotland the eldest sons of barons and the uncles of lords were called Masters but this is not primarily a Scottish surname.2: German: dialect form of Meister and in North America (also) an altered form of this.3: Indian (Gujarat and Mumbai): Parsi occupational name for someone who was a master of his craft from the English word master.

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