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Stryker

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Strijker) : occupational name for someone whose job was to fill level measures of grain by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of English Striker, or even an Americanized spelling of German Streicher.

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