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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a short, stout person, from Middle High German strumpf ‘stump’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of socks or stockings, from German Strumpf ‘sock’, ‘stocking’.

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