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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English strong, strang ‘strong’, generally a nickname for a strong man but perhaps sometimes applied ironically to a weakling.
  • French : translation of Trahand, a metonymic occupational name for a silkworker who drew out the thread from the cocoons (see Trahan).
  • Translation of Ashkenazic Jewish Stark.

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