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stork Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English stork ‘stork’, hence a nickname for a thin man with long legs, or perhaps occasionally a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a stork. In Yorkshire, where the name is most frequent, it may be a habitational name from a place so named (now known as Storkhill), near Beverley.
  2. North German: nickname for someone thought to resemble a stork, Middle Low German stork.
  3. German: habitational name from a place so named in Hesse.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of stork Families in the US in 1920
Number of stork families
 44-85
 15-43		 1-14
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Illinois Stork - Cord Henry Stork JDJames89 0
Stork Sheffield-England Richard Stork 4
New York....England....Germany jeanniestork|M1797367 15
census & obit fyi - Betty Maurine STORK Bell, 1915 CA. - 2008 AZ. LorraineGilmer02 0
Storks in Montana, Illinois, Germany and Prussia JDJames89 0
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Junice Fay Stork Garmon, 1953-1991 goodsearch 0
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