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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southwest German and French (Alsace) : from a Germanic name composed of arbi ‘inheritance’ + gast ‘stranger’. St. Arbogast was a 7th-century bishop of Strasbourg and is the patron saint of Alsace.

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