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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Austrian) : habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a star, from a diminutive of Middle High German sterre, a variant of stern ‘star’.
  • South German (Austrian) : diminutive of Stehr.

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