Storch

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Storch is the 12581st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2461 individuals. Storch is most common among White (94.51%) individuals.

Etymology
From, , from , , from , from.

Cognate to dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The expected German form is also, which was indeed in wide use, but has not become standardized. The shifted variant is probably due to the use of epenthetic vowels in Old High German, by which the uninflected stem  alternated with inflected. Such variation was generally levelled in favour of the inflected stem, but this was an apparent exception. Compare for the regular development alongside, whence  and modern. Alternatively, could be an Upper German relict form (with  from ), but the regional distribution does not seem to confirm this.

Noun

 * 1) stork bird

Etymology
From, widely displacing the native form above.

Noun

 * 1) stork