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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German stiglitz, German Stieglitz ‘goldfinch’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird, or in the case of the Jewish name an ornamental name.

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