Type Surname
Usage German
Meaning & History
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Type Surname (from nickname)
Scripts פֿינסטער, פֿינצטער(Hebrew)
Meaning & History
Nickname from German finster "dark, gloomy" or Yiddish fintster (Middle High German vinster). The name may have referred to a person's habitual character or it may have been acquired as a result of some now irrecoverable anecdote. Or a topographic name for someone living in a dark wood.