American Family Name Origins:
Strohecker
Frequency: (383)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: occupational name for a chaff cutter, from Middle High German strō ‘straw’, ‘chaff’ + hecker ‘chopper’.
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