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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Stöcker) : topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 2) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
  • German (also Stöcker) : from Middle High German stocker ‘jailer’.

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