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The stelling Surname

stelling Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from places in Northumberland and Kent. The former is probbly from an Old English stelling ‘shelter or fold for cattle’; the latter may be named with an unattested Old English male personal name, Stealla, + -ingas, a suffix denoting ‘family or followers of’.
  2. Dutch: topographic name from a derivative of Middle Dutch stelle ‘land built up on mudflats behind a dike’.
  3. German: derivative of Stell 1, for a small cattle farmer.

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Distribution of stelling Families in the US in 1840
Number of stelling families
 2
 2-2
 1
 0
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