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stout Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for a brave or powerfully built man, from Middle English stout ‘steadfast’.
  2. from the Old Norse byname Stútr ‘gnat’, denoting a small and insignificant person.
  3. possibly also a habitational name from a minor place named with the Old English element stut ‘stumpy hillock’, which is found as a component in various Devon place names.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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stout Family Facts

Distribution of stout Families in the US in 1920
Number of stout families
 312-622
 105-311
 1-104
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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