Family name origins & meanings
- German (Bavaria, Austria) : habitational name from any of various place names of Slavic origin, for example Postelitz and Postlow.
- German : nickname from Middle High German possolt ‘handicraft’.
- German : from a Slavic pet form of Sebastian.
- German : from Apostel ‘apostle’, a nickname for someone who played the part of an apostle in a medieval mystery play. Compare Postle.
- Dutch : habitational name from Postel in Antwerp province, Bavaria.
- Jewish (from Ukraine) : metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Yiddish postele ‘leather shoe’.