Family name origins & meanings
- English : from Middle English stork ‘stork’, hence a nickname for a thin man with long legs, or perhaps occasionally a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a stork. In Yorkshire, where the name is most frequent, it may be a habitational name from a place so named (now known as Storkhill), near Beverley.
- North German : nickname for someone thought to resemble a stork, Middle Low German stork.
- German : habitational name from a place so named in Hesse.