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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : Germanprobably a topographic name from a compound of steg ‘path’, ‘narrow bridge’ + beck ‘creek’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
  • German : occupational nickname from steg ‘path’, ‘narrow bridge’ + South German beck ‘baker’, denoting a baker who lived by a path or bridge.

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