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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from any of the numerous places called Stoke.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a stoker, Middle Dutch stokere, or from the same word in the sense ‘fire raiser’, ‘arsonist’.
  • Scottish : occupational name for a trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc ‘Gaelic trumpet’. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes.

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