Family name origins & meanings
- North German : from Middle Low German stapel ‘column’, ‘signpost’, ‘warehouse’, perhaps applied as a nickname for a tall thin man.
- North German : topographic from a diminutive of the old dialect term stap ‘marsh’.
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