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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Steinseifer, a topographic name composed of Middle High German stein ‘stone’, ‘rock’ + sīfe ‘swampy creek’. In Germany the surname occurs chiefly in the Siegen area.

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