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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German stekel ‘easily affronted’.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German steckel and Yiddish shtekl ‘little stick’, hence perhaps a nickname for a thin person.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Stöckel ‘outhouse’.

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