Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German strāle ‘flash of lightning’, ‘strip of land’; it may have been a nickname from the first sense, but appears more generally to have derived from the second sense, as a topographic name or from a field name.
- German (Strähl) : metonymic occupational name for a comb maker, from Middle High German stæl ‘comb’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish shtral or German Strahl ‘ray of light’, ‘sunbeam’.