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sterling Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: variant spelling of Stirling.
  2. English: perhaps a variant of Starling.
  3. German: from Middle High German sterlinc, the name of a coin, hence probably a nickname for someone who paid that amount in rent.

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

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Distribution of sterling Families in the US in 1920
Number of sterling families
 188-373
 63-187		 1-62
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Sterling Ny lfgoodall 10
William Edgar Sterling vintageheart 0
Drusillia Sterling TomGoodwin778 0
Sterling Family To John Tippit 10
Ruffin Sterling of Baton Rouge, LA 34nbynum 0
Sterlings from Miss rhonda 21
Captain Frances Sterling wendyhorne56 0
Seekig Henry Sterling of 28th PVI,Co. E JoeNihen 1
John Sterling Ed and Linda 87 6
Old Campaign Card for WIll C. Sterling, Republican Candidate, Crawford County, Lynxville Wisconsin Bronsch 0
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