When Velma Stout was born on 16 April 1904, in Rexburg, Fremont, Idaho, United States, her father, Albert Curtis Stout, was 23 and her mother, Lois Ray Buckland, was 20. She died on 11 November 1909, in her hometown, at the age of 5, and was buried in Sutton Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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1881–1963 Male
1883–1964 Female
1904–1909 Female
1905–1909 Male
1912–1981 Male
1917–2006 Female
English:
nickname from Middle English stout ‘bold, daring, brave’ (Old French estolt, estout, Anglo-Norman French estut, estot, estout ‘bold, fierce, randy, stubborn’).
perhaps occasionally a nickname from Middle English st(o)ut ‘gnat, horse-fly’ (Old English stūt, Old Norse stútr ‘gnat’), possibly used for someone with a biting tongue or for a small, quick-moving person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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