English: habitational name for someone from any of the numerous
places called Stoke.
Dutch: occupational name for a stoker,
Middle Dutch stokere, or from the same word in the sense ‘fire
raiser’, ‘arsonist’.
Scottish: occupational name for a
trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc
‘Gaelic trumpet’. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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