Family name origins & meanings
- German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German strecken ‘to stretch’, hence perhaps an occupational name for someone who stretched cloth out on tenterhooks.
- German : from an agent derivative of Middle Low German strecken ‘to plow (a piece of land) for the first time’, hence a nickname for someone who owned or worked a plot of land that had been newly taken into cultivation.
- German : possibly a habitational name for someone from Streckau near Zeitz.
- German : occupational name for a torturer or executioner.