The stiff Surname
stiff Name Meaning and History
English: nickname from Middle English stif ‘rigid’,
‘inflexible’, hence a nickname for someone who had difficulty in
bending. The term was also used in a transferred sense of character
(generally in the approving sense ‘resolute’, ‘steadfast’) from the
12th century, and this use may lie behind many examples of the
surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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