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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Village

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the numerous places throughout England named from Middle English stoke. The exact sense in individual cases is not clear; it seems to have meant originally merely ‘place’, and to have been used mainly for an outlying hamlet or dependent settlement.

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