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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone living by a main street or highway, from Middle High German strasse, German Strasse ‘street’, ‘road’.
  • Slovenian : phonetically Germanized spelling of Slovenian Stražar, occupational name for a sentinel, from an agent derivative of straža ‘watch’, ‘guard’, ‘sentry’.

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