Stave

Various origins:

• Borrowed from North German Stave, an occupational surname for a judge or church official, from Middle Low German Staf (“staff”).
• Borrowed from Norwegian Stave, a habitational surname from five farmsteads in the country.
• Americanized form of Polish Staw, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

Stave (plural Staves)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stave is the 41038^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Stave is most common among White (89.64%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stave”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.