Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name from Middle English stebbing, stubbing ‘clearing’ (from an unattested Old English stybbing, a derivative of stubb ‘tree stump’).
- English : habitational name from Stebbing in Essex, which is named in Old English either as ‘the family or followers (Old English -ingas) of a man called Stybba’, an unattested Old English personal name, or ‘the dwellers among the tree stumps (Old English stybb)’.
- English : Edward Stebbins was one of the founders of Hartford, CT (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.