Family name origins & meanings
- Variant of German Kastner or respelling of Kassner.
- Czech : topographic name for someone who lived on a street, from a derivative of German Gasse ‘street’, or possibly from German Kastner.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a community treasurer, from German Kastner or alternatively from German Kasse ‘cash(box)’, ‘coffer’ + the agent suffix -ner.