Family name origins & meanings
- Irish and English : nickname for a brave or powerfully built man, from Middle English stout ‘steadfast’.
- Irish and English : from the Old Norse byname Stútr ‘gnat’, denoting a small and insignificant person.
- Irish and English : possibly also a habitational name from a minor place named with the Old English element stūt ‘stumpy hillock’, which is found as a component in various Devon place names.