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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : unexplained. Perhaps a shortened form of (van) Sterkenburg, a habitational name from a place so named in Utrecht.
  • South German (Bavaria) : nickname for a short person, from a dialect word to stalk, stub, stump.

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