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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Alsace) : nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German stōzen ‘to push or thrust’, ‘to clink (glasses)’ + kopf ‘head’, ‘mug’, hence a nickname for a drinker or an obstinate or dashing man.

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