German: perhaps a variant of Straub (compare Strub),
of from a Germanic personal name (Stribo) whose first element
is cognate with Old High German, Middle High German strit
‘quarrel’, ‘fight’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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