Message: "Name Yost stand for and what origin"

Name Yost stand for and what origin

by Ann (guest)

1/12/2005, 7:55 AM

I am trying to find out what Yost stands for. Yost and Elizabeth Decker's son John came to the USA around 1857. What does Yost stand for in Enlish?

- Andy ; —) (guest)

1/12/2005, 9:18 AM

It is an Americanisation of the German name Jo(o)st, which again is from Jodocus (click on Joyce for more info)

Andy ;—)

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