German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone
who worked with stone: a quarryman, stonecutter, or stonemason; an
agent derivative of Stein.
Topographic name for
someone who lived on stony ground or near a prominent outcrop of
rock.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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