Dinsten is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Dinsten
No. of characters: 7
Origin: England
Meaning:

Lastname is a form of Durston. See Thurston - 1. A parish in Suffolk. 2. In some cases, perhaps, from the Teutonic name Turstin, which is found in Domesday as the designation of persons both Norman and Saxon. One Turstanus is there described as 'machinator'—probably a military engineer

Also a parish county of Somerset.

Form of the Dustin. One who came from Duston meaning "dusty homestead," in Northamptonshire.

Lastname Dinsten is the variation of the Dunstanville. Reginald de Dunstanville was a baron by tenure in the western counties, temp. Henry I. The family were doubtless Norman.

Variant form of Dunstone. More probably from one of the places so called in counties Lincoln, Norfolk, Northumberland, and Stafford, than from the well-known Anglo-Saxon. personal name.

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