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The stauffer Surname

stauffer Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for a maker or seller of beakers or mugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stouf ‘beaker’, ‘stoup’.
  2. habitational name for someone from any of the various minor places named with this word, for example Stauf, Staufen; the reference is to hills thought to resemble a beaker in shape.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The stauffer name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the stauffer family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of stauffer Families in the US in 1920
Number of stauffer families
 553-1104
 185-552		 1-184
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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