The story
* As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Starčević, from starac (“old man”). Compare Starkovich. * As an Americanized Slovene variant of the above, from Starc; see Startz. * Also as a Serbo-Croatian surname, from Štark, itself from German; see Stark.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.