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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Steigleder, probably a metonymic occupational name for a stirrup maker, from Middle High German stīcleder ‘stirrup’ (from a derivative of Middle High German stīgan ‘to climb’ + leder ‘leather’).

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