Last name origins & meanings:
- German (Köstner) occupational name from the Bavarian,
Franconian dialect word Köstner ‘granary administrator’,
‘treasurer’.
- German (Köstner): habitational name for
someone from either of two places: Kösten near Bamberg, or
Köstenberg.
- German: topographic name for someone living on a
‘shelf’ in the mountains, from Latin costa ‘rib’, ‘side’,
‘flank’.
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