Last Name MASTEN

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Meaning	Local: A place or house inclosed, from 'Maes,' a field, and 'din,' inclosed, fortified. 'Moestuin,' in the Teutonic and Dutch, signifies a garden, a place cultivated. The Gaelic 'dun,' and the Welsh 'din,' a fortified hill or fort, are synonymous. The Saxon 'tun' signifies an inclosure, a garden, a village, a town, and 'tun' or 'twin,' in Dutch, a garden, a protected place. Camden relates, that in the time of Henry VIII, an ancient worshipful gentleman of Wales being called at the panel of a jury by the name of Thomas-Ap-William-Ap-Thomas-Ap-Hoell-Ap-Euan Vaughn, etc., was advised by the judge to leave that old manner. Whereupon, he afterward called himself 'Mostyn,' according to the name of his principal house, and left that surname to his posterity. Mostyn, a village in Flintshire, Wales. On Mostyn hill, in Flintshire, Wales, is a remarkable monument to the sun, a place of Druid worship.

Origin	Welsh, Dutch, Slovenian, Croatian, Belgian

Rank	11,044 (2000 US census)	17,668 (1990 US census)

Count	2,640 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.15%, or 2380 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.64%, or 96 total occurrences, as black,
0.42%, or 11 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
3.11%, or 82 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.59%, or 42 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.1%, or 29 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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