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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German, Middle Low German stolle ‘prop’, ‘support’, ‘frame’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, or a nickname for a rigid person.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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