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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English stapel ‘post’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary post, or a habitational name from some place named with this word (Old English stapel), as for example Staple in Kent or Staple Fitzpaine in Somerset.
  • Americanized spelling of German Stapel.

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