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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from a word meaning ‘starling’. Compare Starling.
  • German : nickname from the Slavic word stary ‘old’, either an identifying name for the older of two bearers of the same name or, in some cases, an identifying name for an ‘old’ inhabitant, as distinct from a newcomer.

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