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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Stiehl, or in some cases from a Germanic personal name, from stilli ‘quiet’, ‘gentle’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Stiel ‘handle’, ‘stem’, ‘stalk’, most likely one of the names selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials when surnames were made compulsory.

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