Updated June 9, 2019 Share: Boy name origins & meanings Old English : From the tree-stump meadow Boy name variations Stokley Stockley Stockton Stockwell Stokeley Family name origins & meanings Dutch and English : from Middle Dutch stock ‘stump’, ‘stick’, Middle English stock ‘stump’, ‘stick’ (see Stock) + man ‘man’.German (Stockmann) : variant of Stocker 1 and 2.