Släkthistoria för Stockman
Stockman Vad efternamn betyder
Flemish Dutch and English: from Middle Dutch Middle English stock ‘stump tree trunk’ (see Stock) + man ‘man’ used for someone who lived at or by a tree stump or from a place so named. In Flemish and Dutch especially an occupational name for a jailer (compare Stocker ). In North America this surname is also an altered form of the more common Dutch variant Stokman. English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Stoke or Stock (named with Old English stoc ‘place’) + -man used for someone from such a place. Compare Stoke Stoker English: perhaps an occupational name for a stockfishmonger from Middle English stok ‘stockfish’ (fish preserved by drying without salt in the open air) + man. Compare Stocker Americanized form of German Stockmann.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022