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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived near a marsh, from an old dialect word stel ‘bog’, where the land was built up on mudflats (behind the dyke) for cattle grazing. The word later assumed the meaning ‘small farm’.
  • English (West Yorkshire) : variant of Still 2, possibly also of Steel.

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