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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Stühler) : occupational name for a chair maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stuol ‘chair’, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a place known as a Stuhl, from the same word in the transferred sense ‘area of raised land’.

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