Sturman Family History
- Sturman Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for a navigator, from Old Norse stýrimaðr ‘steersman’ (a compound of stýra ‘to steer’ + maðr ‘man’). English: from an Old French diminutive form Esturmin of a Germanic byname meaning ‘storm’. Compare Storm. North German (Sturmann): altered spelling of Stuhrmann, an occupational name for a helmsman, from Middle Low German sturen ‘to steer’ + mann ‘man’. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): origin uncertain; possibly an ornamental name from Polish szturman ‘mate (of a ship)’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 135,292 Historical Documents with Sturman on Ancestry
- 36,414 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 23,576 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,638 Military Records
- 2,037 Immigration Records
- 70,627 Member Trees
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Number of Sturman families
 89 - 176  30 - 88 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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