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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : alternative spelling of Stolov, from Slavic stól ‘table’, most probably a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter who made tables, but possibly also for a servant at table, which is the meaning of the cognate Polish surname Stołowy.

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