Frequency: (132)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North German (also Ströbeck): habitational or topographic name from a place so named in Saxony-Anhalt, from strō(te)beke ‘a stream flowing through swampy underbrush’. Compare Strodtman.
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