Gaster (surname)

This article is about the surname. For other uses, see Gaster (disambiguation).

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

References

1. "Gaster". names.whitepages.com. Archived from the original on 2010-07-28.
2. "Gratis Stammbaum, Genealogie, Familiengeschichte und DNA-Test".