Meisters Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Spelled Meisters, the surname still points back to Meister. The family name meaning is “master craftsman”, the same as for Meister.

• Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Masters.
• The same family of names includes Mesters, Meesters and Mester.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• The extra ending in Meisters is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Meister's family.

Heraldry and the Meisters name

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