Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Strang 2.
- German : from Middle High German, Middle Low German strenge ‘strong’, ‘brave’; ‘hard’, ‘pitiless’, hence a nickname for a strong or tough person.
- Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a rope maker, from Middle Dutch strenc, stringe ‘rope’, ‘cord’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from German streng ‘strict’, ‘severe’.