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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a bootmaker, from German Stiefel ‘boot’, Middle High German stivel.
  • German : from a pet form of the personal name Stefan, German form of Latin Stephanus (see Steven).

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