Exclusive Christmas discount for your expert parenting classes from FamilyEducation — 50% for a limited time only! Click Here to get started.

Stern

Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Middle English : Serious-minded

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German stern, German Stern ‘star’, a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a star, or a Jewish ornamental name.
English : nickname for a severe person, from Middle English stern(e) ‘strict’, ‘austere’.

Famous people with this last name