English: nickname from Old English stagga ‘male deer’,
‘stag’. In northern dialects of Middle English the term was also used
of a young horse, perhaps under Scandinavian influence, and in some
cases this meaning may lie behind the original application of the
name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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