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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (standardized from Steenhoff) : from Middle Low German stēn ‘stone’ + hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’; a topographic name for someone whose farm had stony soil or was distinguished by some conspicuous boulder or rocky outcrop.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Stein ‘stone’ + Hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’, ‘court’.

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