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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Steinmüller.
  • distinguishing name for a miller whose mill was built of stone or located by a distinctive rock formation, from Middle High German stein ‘stone’ + müller ‘miller’.
  • habitational name for someone from a place called Steinmühle (literally ‘stone mill’).

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