Strasser
A German surname most likely meaning someone who lived by or came from a street or road.
The #7,891 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 73,581 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Strasser is usually explained from German Strasse, meaning “street” or “road,” with the suffix -er indicating someone connected with a place or feature. In this sense, the name would have identified a person who lived by the street, a road, or a main way. In some cases it may also point to someone from a place called Strass or similar, since many German surnames formed from settlement names.
History
The surname is found in German-speaking regions and later spread through migration to other parts of Europe and North America. Spellings such as Strass and Strasser reflect the same basic place-and-road naming pattern. The name is relatively common in Germanic areas and was carried abroad by emigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Fun fact
German surnames built from everyday landscape words like Strasse often began as simple address-like descriptions before becoming hereditary family names.
From the historical record
“Strangford 503. Strass 211, 358. Strasser 358. Strassmayer 221. Strate 211, 358. Stratmann 358. Straube 139, 593. Straubel 139.”
— Die Personennamen, insbesondere die Familiennamen