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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a joiner, from a word of Slavic origin. Compare Polish Stolarz.
  • German (Switzerland and Upper Rhine) : habitational name for someone from a place called Stolle, near Zurich (now called Stollen).
  • English : occupational name for a stole maker, from an agent derivative of Middle English stole ‘stole’.

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