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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and German : from Middle Low German stump ‘tree stump’ (borrowed into Middle English), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous tree stump, or a nickname for a short, stout man.
  • German (mainly northern and central) : variant of Stumm.

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