Frequency: (1173)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Stauch.
2. metonymic occupational name for a maker of scarves.
3. habitational name from places named Stauch in the Rhineland and Saxony.
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