- 1,427
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Fahnestock
Meaning & Origins
German: apparently from Fahnestock, literally ‘flag pole’, but according to family history an altered form of Fahrenstuck (Fahrenstück), which is a topographic name either from Middle Low German vor(n) ‘swamp’, ‘bog’, or from the fused preposition and definite article vorn ‘before the’, ‘in front of the’ + Middle High German stück ‘piece (of land)’, ‘field’.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,427
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Pennsylvania
- has the most people named Fahnestock per capita
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