The story
- German · borrowed fromStanger
- Middle English · derived fromstang“pole”
- English todayStanger
Various origins: * English surname, probably derived from Middle English stang (“pole”) and possibly being a topographic surname fro someone who lived by a pole or stake * Orcadian habitational surname, from a minor place called Stanagar, in the parish of Stromness. * Borrowed from German Stanger, an occupational surname for a maker of shafts.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishstang all →
stang
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.