Name origin: English
Name meaning: habitational name from any of the various places, for
example in Hertfordshire, Kent, and Somerset, so named from Old
English strǣt ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (Latin
strata (via)). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a
Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or
village, and so the surname may also have been a topographic name for
someone who lived on a main street.