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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : from a reduced pet form of the Slavic personal name Stanisław (see Stanislaw).
  • South German : unexplained. In Germany the spelling Stenz (pronounced ‘stents’) is more common than Stentz, and it is likely that some immigrant families with that name may have added the -t- in order to preserve the original pronunciation.

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