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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: He who guards the fire

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: variant of Fest.
  2. Danish: topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement or who had arrived from the west, from vest ‘west’ (see Wester).
  3. Slovenian (north central Slovenia): either from a reduced form of the personal name Silvester, or from the German surname Wester.

This name appears in the following lists: Dancers