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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Westphalia) : topographic name for someone living near an area of swampy underbrush or in a hollow, from Meck (probably from the personal name, see Meck) + Low German Strut(h), Stroth ‘underbrush’, ‘hollow’.

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