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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Stutz, or an altered spelling of Dutch Stuijts, Steuts, a metonymic occupational name for a baker of fine bread, from Middle Dutch stute, stuyt ‘white bread’, ‘cookie’.

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