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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : metonymic occupational name for a chair maker, from Middle Low German stōl ‘chair’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Rogaland named Stol meaning ‘chair’, probably from the name of a hill.

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