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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : altered spelling of Stempfli, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked at a crushing mill, from a diminutive of Middle High German stampf ‘pestle’, ‘crusher’, ‘crushing mill’. In some instances it may have been applied as a nickname for a small, fat person.

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