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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Steurer.
  • German : occupational name for a helmsman, from Middle High German stiur ‘steer’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a tax collector, from German Steuer ‘tax’, ‘impost’.

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