Kast

See also: kast, kaśt, and каст

English

Etymology

• As a German surname, from Kast, a spelling variant of Karst, the dropping of the r being common in northern dialects, from the noun Karst (“hoe, mattock”).
• As an Alemannic German surname, from the medieval personal name Arbogast.
• See also the etymology at Gast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kæst/
• Rhymes: -æst
• Hyphenation: Kast

Proper noun

Kast (plural Kasts)

1. A surname from German.

Translations

surname

• German: Kast
• Spanish: Kast (es)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kast is the 14549^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2048 individuals. Kast is most common among White (95.17%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kast”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 281.

Anagrams

• AKST, KTAS, askt, kats, skat, task

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kast/

Proper noun

Kast m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Kasts or (with an article) Kast, feminine genitive Kast, plural Kasts)

1. a surname, variant of Karst

Declension

Declension of Kast [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Kast	(eine)	(die)	Kast	(die)	Kasts
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Kasts, Kast1	(einer)	(der)	Kast	(der)	Kasts
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Kast	(einer)	(der)	Kast	(den)	Kasts
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Kast	(eine)	(die)	Kast	(die)	Kasts

¹With an article.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkast/ [ˈkast̪]
• Rhymes: -ast
• Syllabification: Kast

Proper noun

Kast m or f by sense

1. a surname from German

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