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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Middle Low German sticht(e) ‘religious foundation’, ‘chapter’ (modern German Stift), hence a status name for the founder or a member of such a community, or an occupational name for a worker at one. Compare Stifter.

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