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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : from Middle High German strōmer, a reduced form of strōmeier (see Strohmeier).
  • German : (also Strömer): nickname from Middle High German strōmer ‘tramp’, ‘vagrant’ (agent derivative of strōmen ‘to pull one way and another’).

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