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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German ster ‘ram’ + -n- (either the plural ending or a folk etymological insert by association with Middle High German stern ‘star’) hagen ‘enclosed field or pasture’.
  • Swedish : probably an ornamental name composed of German Stern ‘star’ + Hagen ‘enclosure’.

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