Gaster (surname)

Gaster is a German surname. The Dictionary of American Family Names (2003) suggests that it may be a derivation from Gast "guest". There were 918 entries in the US white pages for this name as of 2013, the largest number (221 entries) in North Carolina.[1] In Germany, there were 95 entries as of 2008.[2]

Notable bearers of the name include:

  • Jack Gaster (1907–2007), British communist solicitor and politician. son of Moses Gaster
  • Jean-Paul Gaster (born 1971), American drummer
  • Michael Gaster, British aerospace engineer
  • Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Romanian-born British rabbi and scholar
  • Ronald Gaster, U.S. born Ophthalmologist; expert in refractive surgery
  • Theodor Gaster (1906–1992), British-born American Biblical scholar, son of Moses Gaster

References
  1. http://names.whitepages.com/last/Gaster
  2. http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/gaster.html
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