Origin and popularity of the name STILE
Origin
Stile : 1: English: from Middle English stile stigel stighel stikel steghel stekel ‘stile’ also ‘steep ascent’ (Old English stigel stigol). The surname is usually topographic for someone who lived by a stile or steep ascent and occasionally habitational from a place so named such as Stile in Castle Sowerby (Cumberland) Steel (Shropshire) and perhaps Steel (Northumberland).2: Americanized form of German Steil.3: Italian (Campania): possibly a nickname from stile ‘stylus’ or from a variant of stilo ‘dagger’.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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