Family name origins & meanings
- English : occupational name for a navigator, from Old Norse stýrimaðr ‘steersman’ (a compound of stýra ‘to steer’ + maðr ‘man’).
- English : from an Old French diminutive form Esturmin of a Germanic byname meaning ‘storm’. Compare Storm.
- North German (Sturmann) : altered spelling of Stuhrmann, an occupational name for a helmsman, from Middle Low German stūren ‘to steer’ + mann ‘man’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : origin uncertain; possibly an ornamental name from Polish szturman ‘mate (of a ship)’.