Frequency: (162)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of uncleared dense undergrowth, a thicket, from Middle High German stūde ‘thicket’, ‘wilderness’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 7%. Juergen (2), Gunther, Reinhart.
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