Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name (from Middle English stone ‘stone’ + hous ‘house’) for someone who lived in a house built of stone, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages, or a habitational name from a place so named, for example in Devon and Gloucestershire.
- Americanized form of Ashkenazic Jewish Steinhaus ‘stone house’, a topographic name for someone who lived in or by such a house.