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Meaning & History
May descend from Stoop or Stobe.
Cited on Wikipedia from another source, 'Stoop is a Dutch metonymic occupational surname. A stoop was a name for a jug or (wine) jar and a nickname for an innkeeper or wine merchant.'
Another potential etymology, Wiktionary records that the noun stoop (pl. stoops), from the old English stope, is a "A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout."
Etymonline records for the noun stoup, 'late 14c., "jug," especially one made of leather, also a measure for liquid, from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse staup "cup," from Proto-Germanic *staupo' and this unattested Proto-Germanic form spawned forms in other languages.
Cited on Wikipedia from another source, 'Stoop is a Dutch metonymic occupational surname. A stoop was a name for a jug or (wine) jar and a nickname for an innkeeper or wine merchant.'
Another potential etymology, Wiktionary records that the noun stoop (pl. stoops), from the old English stope, is a "A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout."
Etymonline records for the noun stoup, 'late 14c., "jug," especially one made of leather, also a measure for liquid, from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse staup "cup," from Proto-Germanic *staupo' and this unattested Proto-Germanic form spawned forms in other languages.