Family name origins & meanings
- North German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle Low German stēn ‘stone(ware)’ + krōs, krūs ‘jug’, German Stein + Krauss, hence a metonymic occupational name for a potter or an occupational name for an innkeeper.
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