Last name: STORY
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Last name frequency
STORY : This last name is indexed 105,157 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
STORY : 1: English (Cumberland and Durham) and Scottish: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Stori (Old Norse Stóri from stórr ‘big’).3: Altered form of Swiss German Störi a variant of Storer.2: English (Cumberland and Durham) and Scottish: variant of Storer (especially in northeastern England) or vice versa. The names were probably often confused.
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