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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of chairs or looms, from Middle High German stuol ‘chair’, ‘loom’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from German Stuhl ‘chair’.

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