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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German stranc ‘strip of land’, or habitational name from any of several places called Strang, named with this word.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a strict or severe person from an inflected form of German streng (see Streng).

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