Gaster (surname) explained

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 people with the surname include:

• Jack Gaster (1907–2007), British communist solicitor and politician, son of Moses
• Jean-Paul Gaster (born 1971), American drummer
• Michael Gaster, British aerospace engineer
• Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Romanian-born British rabbi and scholar
• Theodor Gaster (1906–1992), British-born American Biblical scholar, son of Moses

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gaster . names.whitepages.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100728190724/http://names.whitepages.com/last/Gaster . 2010-07-28.
2. Web site: Gratis Stammbaum, Genealogie, Familiengeschichte und DNA-Test .