Origin and popularity of the name STELL

Origin

Stell : 1: North German: topographic name for someone who lived near a marsh from an old dialect word stel ‘bog’ where the land was built up on mudflats (behind the dyke) for cattle grazing. The word later assumed the meaning ‘small farm’.2: English: topographic name from Middle English stelle stille ‘place in a river for catching fish’ (Old English stell stællo stiell) used for someone who lived by such a place.3: English: variant of Stile or Steel.

Stallman : 1: Americanized form of German Stallmann and Stahlmann (see Stahlman).2: English: habitational name from Stalmine (Lancashire) probably from Old English stæll stell ‘place for catching fish’ (perhaps also ‘stream’) + Old Norse mynni ‘mouth of a river’.

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