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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’.

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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press

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Geographic distribution of the 1,149 individuals with the name STILE on Geneanet.

 

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    dsavel
    (75 individuals)
    bertrand24
    (32 individuals)
    style1971
    (27 individuals)
    amesgny
    (20 individuals)

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    Variants of name STILE

    STIL STILLE STHILE STHIL STYLL STILL STIEL STELL