Frequency: (512)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: probably from Middle High German statzen ‘to stammer’, hence a nickname for someone who suffered from a stammer.
2. from a vernacular form of the medieval personal name Eustacius.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Eldred, Hans, Hermann, Kurt, Matthias.
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