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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Middle Low German stake ‘rod’. Compare Staple, Staab.
  • Dutch : apparently a metonymic occupational name for a scaffolder, from Middle Dutch stage, staedge, staetge ‘scaffolding’.

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