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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, chiefly in western Norway, named Stølen, from the definite singular form of støl (Old Norse stǫðull), denoting a mountain dairy for summer milking.
  • Dutch : from a personal name, Stoelin, derived from the Germanic personal name Stodilo.

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