Family name origins & meanings
- South German : topographic name from Middle High German stal ‘seat’, ‘place’ + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant, or a habitational name for someone from any of several places named Stall, for example in the Rhineland and in Carinthia.
- occupational name for a worker in a cattle or sheep shelter or fold, from Middle High German stal ‘place’, ‘stall’, ‘barn’.