Stam Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

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What Stam means

Behind the Stam surname stands Stamm, a German name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. The family name meaning is “Someone living by a tree trunk, or a sturdy man”, the same as for Stamm.

Stam drops the “m” of Stamm, a shortening that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. 1,495 Americans were listed as Stam in the 2010 census.

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