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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : metonymic occupational nickname for a miller, from Middle Low German stof ‘dust’. Compare Staub 1.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a cloth merchant, from German Stoff ‘material’, ‘cloth’.

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