Släkthistoria för Zylstra
Zylstra Vad efternamn betyder
West Frisian and Dutch (mainly Groningen): variant mostly Americanized (or archaic) of Zijlstra a topographic name for someone who lived by a sluice from Dutch zijl ‘sluice’ (Frisian syl) + the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’. Compare Van Zyl.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
