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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from a diminutive of Middle High German strūp ‘rough’, ‘unkempt’.
  • Dutch : nickname for a short, thickset person, from Middle Dutch strobbel, strubbel, diminutives of strobbe, strubbe ‘tree stump’.

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