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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German strūs ‘ostrich’. Compare German Strauss.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with strud ‘lay waste’, ‘destroy’, as the first element.
  • Swedish : ornamental name from struts ‘ostrich’.

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