Oster Family History
- Oster Name Meaning
- Swedish (Öster) and German: topographic name from Swedish öster, Middle Low German and Middle High German oster ‘eastern’, denoting someone who lived to the east of a settlement or who had come there from the east. In many cases the Swedish name is probably ornamental. German: nickname for someone who had a connection with the festival of Easter (for example, someone who was born or baptized at that time), from Oster ‘Easter’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic or ornamental name from German Ost ‘east’ or ornamental name from German Oster ‘Easter’; compare 1 and 3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname from Polish ostry or Russian ostryj ‘sharp’, ‘sharp-minded’. Dutch: from a Germanic personal name composed of aust ‘east’ + heri, hari ‘army’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 189,521 Historical Documents with Oster on Ancestry
- 87,357 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 26,030 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,960 Military Records
- 7,144 Immigration Records
- 58,030 Member Trees
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Number of Oster families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Oster families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Oster census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Oster census records
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