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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in Hordaland and Nordland, named with the definite singular form of stig ‘path’, ‘trail’; this often denotes a steep mountain path.
  • German and Dutch : from a reduced form of the personal name Augustin, Dutch Augustijn (see Austin).

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