Gaston Family History
Gaston Name Meaning
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gasto derived from gast ‘guest foreigner’ earlier ‘foreign warrior’. This surname is also found in England and Ireland where it is probably a Huguenot importation. Compare Guest . English (Sussex): variant of Gasson English: in Gloucestershire a variant of Garston a topographic name or metonymic occupational name denoting someone who lived by or worked in a paddock. Scottish: habitational name from Galston (Ayrshire). The /l/ has been vocalized to /u/ and the resulting diphthong /au/ simplified to /a:/.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022