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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Stellmann) : topographic name for someone who owned a small cattle farm, originally from land in by a marsh, from the old dialect word stel ‘bog’ + Middle Low German man ‘man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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