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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of thirty or more farmsteads, notably in Møre og Romsdal, so named from Old Norse stokkr ‘log’, ‘trunk’, ‘beam’, denoting either growing timber or a natural formation shaped like a log, for example a straight-sided inlet.

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