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stump Name Meaning and History

  1. English and German: from Middle Low German stump ‘tree stump’ (borrowed into Middle English), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous tree stump, or a nickname for a short, stout man.
  2. German (mainly northern and central): variant of Stumm.

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

Distribution of stump Families in the US in 1920
Number of stump families
 187-372
 63-186		 1-62
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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